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| Playing ukulele in the kitchen |
10/21/2011
As the summer ended and days got
shorter, Vienna slowly turned into a nice crisp fall. We spent this
last season balancing work, adventure, and awesome meals with our
various roommates!
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| Hiking up to the Heurigen |
Heurigen
The Heurigen season hit us pretty hard
this year. A Heuriger is a wine tavern which sells the wine that it's
vineyard produces. During fall, all the vineyards up on the hills
surrounding Vienna are loaded with Wieners (Viennese people),
drinking their fill, laying in the sun, listening to music, and
strolling through the vineyards.
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| Trying to eat grapes while playing Ukulele |
It's an incredibly nice way to spend
a lazy Sunday. We managed to head up to the hills a few times, and
relax, Wiener style.
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| Our kitchen table on a regular basis |
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| Restaurants at Brunnenmarkt (right next to our house) |
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| Playing "Golf" by the Belvedere palace |
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| A view from Parliment |
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| Brunnenmarkt with Mortiz, Fanny and Analise |
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| Parliment in foreground, Rathaus in back |
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| Fanny and Moritz(our August-September roommate) |
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| At Dragonerheufel, the beach area on Alte Donau |
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| Homemade travel chess set |
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| Our daily tram stop |
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| Church by our tram stop |
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| Every morning on the way to work. |
Sturm
Sturm is an amazing thing which should
definitely be part of our fall season from now on. Sturm could most
easily be translated into “Grape Cider” (the literal translation
is “Storm”). It ranges from 2-5 percent alcohol, but has an
awesome taste. You can buy it at almost any restaurant in Vienna, I
even think I saw it at Mcdonalds! It costs about 2.5 euro for ¼
liter, and it's definitely worth it.
Sturm, is made by local winegrowers,
and needs to be sold with a few days being made. We bought a big 2
liter bottle from a vitner(winemaker), at Brunnenmarkt for 4 Euro,
and when I asked how old it was he said, it was from Monday. It was
saturday! That sturm was fantastic! Each day you store it, the more
alcoholic it gets. After about a week though, it will probably go
bad.
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| Waiting for the train to Zentral Friedhof |
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Picking hazelnuts
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Hazelnuts
Vienna is full of harvestable foods,
you just have to look for it! We collected nettle for nettle tea,
hazelnuts, and walnuts. We got our biggest score with hazelnuts at
the Zentral Friedhof, the central cemetery. Believe it or not, I
collected about 4 pounds of them right next to Beethoven's grave!
What a good find!
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Inconspicuously picking hazelnuts next to Beethoven's resting place.
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The Mother-load!
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A hazelnut pod with treasure inside!
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Hazelnut score!
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We spent one crisp fall afternoon
walking around the central cemetery, and found it really interesting.
It is very old, and in one or more of the sections, there are many
stones which have been overturned and seem to have been shot at,
many, many years ago. We found Beethoven's, Mozart's, Shuberts, and
Strauss's graves.
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Old, knocked down gravestones
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Thumbs up, Mozart!
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October marks our last month here in
Vienna! We'll finish off the month, and then we're headed to Italy to
begin our journey into organic and sustainable agriculture!
