Performance water*
Aug. 9th, 2019 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12I am back from a week's holiday in southern Germany and Austria, about which more below.
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A number of people here on Dreamwidth who are also going to Worldcon have got in touch about wanting to meet up. I have now sorted out a rough plan for which events I want to attend — see the original post, where I have listed all the events I'm definitely, and tentatively going to. Please let me know if you want to meet up — either if you want to go to any of those events with me, or if you want to meet up for a drink or coffee/tea in any of the times outside those panels. I'd really love to see people!
For those of you who do want to meet up but have no idea what I look like, this is me (although I'm not normally wearing an EU flag in jewellery form!). I'm very happy to discuss plans via Dreamwidth messages if you don't want to post about your schedule publicly.
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Our holiday was lovely. We did all our travel by train, which was absolutely glorious, and vastly superior to air travel (and not even much more expensive). The first portion of the holiday was in southern Germany to celebrate my parents-in-laws' birthdays. The party was held in a rural hotel, one that my in-laws love dearly and visit frequently, with coffee, cake, and dinner on the Saturday afternoon, and time to duck into the nearby town and pick up some excellent local wine, and hang out under the fruit trees in the hotel garden.
The next day it was on to Vienna, where we were visiting our friends P and V, who moved there just under a year ago. They live in a fantastic flat on the outskirts of town (but well served by public transport), and greeted us with handmade Käsespäzle, cocktails, and cold white wine, which we ate on their balcony, watching the sun go down and their herb and vegetable plants sway gently in the hot summer breeze.
Matthias and I had been to Vienna before, for our honeymoon around two years ago, so we didn't want to go back to all the same tourist attractions, but rather catch up with our friends and see the places they liked. This meant a hike up the hill through the forests near their house for lunch in a little cafe (and gelato on the way down), a trip into town for some excellent schnitzel, and coffee and cake at one of their favourite cafes. Matthias and I also went on a solo trip around town, and introduced our friends to a fabulous Sekt (sparkling wine) bar that we'd enjoyed during our honeymoon visit.
Our return journey yesterday took about eighteen hours door to door (although we stopped in London for dinner rather than waiting until we got back to Cambridge), but that's still less than it takes for me to fly to Australia, and is infinitely more pleasant. I even managed to read an entire book, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell, which is about minority religions in the Middle East.
Thankfully, we've been able to take Friday (today) off from work, which gives us a long weekend to recover before it's back to work briefly, and then Worldcon!
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*The title of this post is due to a moment in a Vienna wine bar where I misspoke and asked for 'Leistungswasser' (no such thing exists, but it would translate as 'performance water') rather than Leitungswasser (tap water).
A number of people here on Dreamwidth who are also going to Worldcon have got in touch about wanting to meet up. I have now sorted out a rough plan for which events I want to attend — see the original post, where I have listed all the events I'm definitely, and tentatively going to. Please let me know if you want to meet up — either if you want to go to any of those events with me, or if you want to meet up for a drink or coffee/tea in any of the times outside those panels. I'd really love to see people!
For those of you who do want to meet up but have no idea what I look like, this is me (although I'm not normally wearing an EU flag in jewellery form!). I'm very happy to discuss plans via Dreamwidth messages if you don't want to post about your schedule publicly.
Our holiday was lovely. We did all our travel by train, which was absolutely glorious, and vastly superior to air travel (and not even much more expensive). The first portion of the holiday was in southern Germany to celebrate my parents-in-laws' birthdays. The party was held in a rural hotel, one that my in-laws love dearly and visit frequently, with coffee, cake, and dinner on the Saturday afternoon, and time to duck into the nearby town and pick up some excellent local wine, and hang out under the fruit trees in the hotel garden.
The next day it was on to Vienna, where we were visiting our friends P and V, who moved there just under a year ago. They live in a fantastic flat on the outskirts of town (but well served by public transport), and greeted us with handmade Käsespäzle, cocktails, and cold white wine, which we ate on their balcony, watching the sun go down and their herb and vegetable plants sway gently in the hot summer breeze.
Matthias and I had been to Vienna before, for our honeymoon around two years ago, so we didn't want to go back to all the same tourist attractions, but rather catch up with our friends and see the places they liked. This meant a hike up the hill through the forests near their house for lunch in a little cafe (and gelato on the way down), a trip into town for some excellent schnitzel, and coffee and cake at one of their favourite cafes. Matthias and I also went on a solo trip around town, and introduced our friends to a fabulous Sekt (sparkling wine) bar that we'd enjoyed during our honeymoon visit.
Our return journey yesterday took about eighteen hours door to door (although we stopped in London for dinner rather than waiting until we got back to Cambridge), but that's still less than it takes for me to fly to Australia, and is infinitely more pleasant. I even managed to read an entire book, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell, which is about minority religions in the Middle East.
Thankfully, we've been able to take Friday (today) off from work, which gives us a long weekend to recover before it's back to work briefly, and then Worldcon!
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*The title of this post is due to a moment in a Vienna wine bar where I misspoke and asked for 'Leistungswasser' (no such thing exists, but it would translate as 'performance water') rather than Leitungswasser (tap water).
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Date: 2019-08-09 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-08-09 05:35 pm (UTC)The giant rainbow stars + rainbow star earrings!
I found out about them via twitter!
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Date: 2019-08-12 06:52 pm (UTC)I'm glad you had a good time in Vienna :) Was that last picture taken from Lainzer Tiergarten?