The contestants lined up! German Stollen and English Christmas Pudding with a late entrant of English Christmas Cake to add to the choice! The national juries were asked to taste all 3 and give each 3, 2 or 1 points according to their preference. The Italian jury found it difficult to choose between the stollen [...]
Monthly Archive for December 2008
Christmas Dinner in Malta
We have introduced some of our neighbours and guests to British Christmas dinner. The Christmas pudding has proved especially popular – all home made by John of course. Our Russian guests, Andrei and Dacha and Ben from Wolverhampton also enjoyed their Christmas day meal as part of our extended hotel family – photos attached to [...]
Christmas Parties and Advent visitors
The Christmas season has arrived. This week we have had 2 Christmas parties – the local school staff and a dance group (which includes our very own Irmgard) who brough their own ntertainment! Next Monday we are hosting the local council (Gemeinde) too. Here are some photos. And then today we had another starring role [...]
Ryanair Update
Hi everyone. Thought we ought to let you all know that there are lots of free Ryanair flights going for grabs during January and February – just a tenner each way with the taxes. Look again at our snow pictures and ask yourselves….how can you resist???? We have set up a link to a ski [...]
Now this is winter…..
Pictures taken by Klaudia Gollenz after the snowfall last night – and its still snowing!! Share/weitersagen:
It was a cold and snowy night…..
Children and parents gathered outside our door… Some of them didn’t look very friendly!! But when they had sung their Anklöckln song, the children were allowed in to claim their treat! Only in Malta is the tradition of ‘Anklöckeln’ celebrated in this particular way. The ‘Krampus’ mingle in the crowd dishing out punishments to those [...]
Kindergarten Anklöckeln!
Kindergarten Malta, ‘Tante’ Elizabeth und der Nikolo besuchen uns! Today the children from the Kindergarten came ‘Anklöckeln’ – a very Malteinerisch tradition, somewhere between ‘Trick or Treat’ and Christmas Carolling! The children visit several traditional ‘stations’ – the Hochalmspitze is one of these – and must sing a song and then, if St Nickolaus says [...]
Sausages for Christmas??
Seems home made sausages are traditinal for Christmas around here, wo with a little help from the Gollenz family the 2009 Hochalmspitze sausage came into being this week! Hope you enjoy the photos and, if you are near enough, the real thing too! Share/weitersagen:
