no surprise: it was great! i ran around visiting a bunch of things i missed last time: a veg restaurant, a little museum, mr. hundertwasser's buildings (not impressed), a main shopping drag, a new coffeeshop. but the highlight was that it was the opening weekend of their christmas market! so much fun -- i ended up going to ones in germany, switzerland, and austria before the year was up. they're terribly kitsch-y and sometimes bizarre, just my thing! for example, there will inevitably be several booths selling enormous gingerbread hearts that people wear as huge pendants around their necks. i love it when people are weird in inoffensive ways. and the best part is this yummy mulled wine that i couldn't get enough of all winter. hee hee!
15 February 2006
vienna calling
it was mid-november, and i had one weekend left on my eurail pass. i wanted to make it out to eastern europe at least once, so here was my chance to try again for budapest. (okay, really i was thinking, oooh i can go to vienna again while supposedly trying to get a taste for eastern europe by visiting budapest.)
no surprise: it was great! i ran around visiting a bunch of things i missed last time: a veg restaurant, a little museum, mr. hundertwasser's buildings (not impressed), a main shopping drag, a new coffeeshop. but the highlight was that it was the opening weekend of their christmas market! so much fun -- i ended up going to ones in germany, switzerland, and austria before the year was up. they're terribly kitsch-y and sometimes bizarre, just my thing! for example, there will inevitably be several booths selling enormous gingerbread hearts that people wear as huge pendants around their necks. i love it when people are weird in inoffensive ways. and the best part is this yummy mulled wine that i couldn't get enough of all winter. hee hee!
no surprise: it was great! i ran around visiting a bunch of things i missed last time: a veg restaurant, a little museum, mr. hundertwasser's buildings (not impressed), a main shopping drag, a new coffeeshop. but the highlight was that it was the opening weekend of their christmas market! so much fun -- i ended up going to ones in germany, switzerland, and austria before the year was up. they're terribly kitsch-y and sometimes bizarre, just my thing! for example, there will inevitably be several booths selling enormous gingerbread hearts that people wear as huge pendants around their necks. i love it when people are weird in inoffensive ways. and the best part is this yummy mulled wine that i couldn't get enough of all winter. hee hee!
13 February 2006
well, i'm back
so much for trying to catch up on blogging during my sojourn in the states... but i hope to catch up in the next two weeks, as i won't be doing much of interest while i'm glued to the tv watching the olympics. after using my tv just once in my first six months here, i've decided it's time to figure out the channels now that i have a reason to watch. luckily, i found a french station covering the games after suffering through swiss german for a couple hours.
it was so nice on the flight over when they started doing everything in (at least) three languages again. ah, back to switzerland. in the office, there are lots of new people i don't know very well yet, and the food is just as terrible as ever. but it's been snowing a little (i've been detoxed of cold boston memories and am just delighted every time the fluffy stuff starts falling), and when it's not too cloudy you can see snow on the mountains across lake zurich, and i'm just so happy to not be doing the sf-mv commute anymore. so, so far so good.
it was so nice on the flight over when they started doing everything in (at least) three languages again. ah, back to switzerland. in the office, there are lots of new people i don't know very well yet, and the food is just as terrible as ever. but it's been snowing a little (i've been detoxed of cold boston memories and am just delighted every time the fluffy stuff starts falling), and when it's not too cloudy you can see snow on the mountains across lake zurich, and i'm just so happy to not be doing the sf-mv commute anymore. so, so far so good.
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