Schatzland & Schnitzel

Schatz and Schnitzel

Schatz at home

Going back in time a little to the end of May, and a long weekend spent in Wallerfangen with Christina. It was a fairly relaxing weekend, where I managed to play trombone a couple of times with her orchestra. This included playing at the Villeroy mansion, for the 50th wedding anniversary of Msr. & Mdm. Villeroy, the same family that is part of chinaware maker Villeroy & Boch. Wallerfangen's main claim to fame is having had the Villeroy factory here.

Villeroy Mansion

Christina and the two Tobiases. Tobeece? Tobii? Tobiaserna (for you Swedes)

Wallerfangen

Then in July was it time for a weekend in Vienna, land of all cultural stereotypes that you can imagine, schnitzels, Mozarts, Klimts, and lots of large stone buildings from the epoch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Stephansdom

Schönebrun Palace


BTW notice the summer sun? Compare that to pics from England, elsewhere in this blog...

Operetta at the palace. I wish we could wear bikinis. Not me personally, but in the summer and without airconditioning, the less clothes the better. No wonder bewigged aristocrats in layers and layers of fine clothes always hid their faces coquettishly behind large fans - to hide the sweat dripping down their faces. I had mixed emotions about the woman in the burka next to us who required her husband to fan her the whole time. Although she was almost certainly suffering, the husband had a proper fan which caused a decent rush of cool air to head in our direction also. Without trying to appear culturally insensitive though, surely dressing (or undressing) for the environment would be the better solution...

So they freed Willy, who escaped the aquapark and went on to open his own designer jewellery shops?

Not all architecture fits the grande mold. The Hundertwasser Hus...

which is of course an artist colony

The Sacher Hotel, home of the Sacher Torte

Lots of reliefs and such on apartment buildings everywhere

Monument to Strauss. Kinda ugly.

They only abbreviated the word by one letter. Not much of a saving really. And it doesnt really work with English pronounciation rather than the German, where it would read "Haitchspital".