Travel adventures
It’s not quite a white out because I can still see the edge of the apartment block closest to us, but the one just beyond it is gone. I can see the fence in front of our building, but the trees behind the fence are fading to gray. The snowplow woke me up this morning …
Yesterday we spent the day wandering around Graz. You can join us on our tour here.
Folks have been asking me this: just how cold is it in Austria in deep winter? Well, this morning, it’s -14C, that’s 8F, for those of you in the Fahrenheit zone. Yesterday afternoon we went for a walk and when we got to J’s mom’s house, the thermometer was reading -5C. As the numbers go, …
SchneeberichtRelatively speaking, it’s not that cold. It’s about -7C, but it’s very gray and a bit damp. And it’s snowing, has been on and off for three days now. Tomorrow, it’s supposed to get heavier and the wind is supposed to pick up, so it was key to get out today. I drove up the …
“But that is so simple!” you say. “Why didn’t I think of that?” Because you, sir or madam, are not the winter sports prodigy that I have turned out to be. I say that not to imply that I have any kind of skill or promise as an athlete. No sir. Quite the opposite. Rather, …