A 10 Euro Bargain

I looked at my ticket again last night. RyanAir gets 10.48 euros for my ticket. The balance is airport taxes. Crazy, no? How can it cost just over 10 euros to fly round trip Graz-London? I’ve no doubt I’ll make it up in train fare and other expenses, London is, after all, crazy expensive, but …


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Skiing. Snowshoeing. Scenery.

If you’re not sick to death of pictures of J. and I frolicking in the breathtakingly gorgeous outdoors, you can take a look at the new photos I added snow days album (here) from our day out on Sunday, during which we went snowshoeing AND skiing, both. We are learning a lot about taking pictures …


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The Harper’s Index of Snow

Feet of snow outside my front door: 4Feet of snow up in the mountains: 16People trapped at the Planneralm resort: 500Helicopters used to evacuate them to the base next to our house: 17Level (from 1-5) avalanche alert for the last 48 hours: 5Cows killed in yesterday’s local avalanche: 6Barns destroyed: 1Pairs of snowshoes parked by …


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The Big Snow

Pictures from the day after a snowstorm in Austria, February 2nd, 2005. Join us for a walk here.

Schneechaos!

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 …


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A change of scenery

Yesterday we spent the day wandering around Graz. You can join us on our tour here.