Some musings about menus! These are interesting to plan here to say the least. We are told (and have experienced) that locally people are very conservatve in their tastes. But then there are some who are willing to try new things and, of course, in the summer we are catering for more ‘outsiders’ than we [...]

Party time at the Hochalmspitze! We celebrated John’s birthday yesterday with an international group of friends from Austria, Germany and Hungary. John was let out of the cellar and the DIY for the day and instead prepared some super new recipes which we tried out on our very willing ‘Versuchskaninchen’ (my German word of the [...]

… is that it just goes on and on and on! And things never happen as quickly as you think they will. And things get a lot worse before they get better. Hence the pictures of what was just a week ago a reasonably organised office cum living space now transformed into total chaos! Still [...]

Greetings blog readers. John and I are back from the UK where we spent a hectic few days seeing friends and relations and celebrating Steffi’s 21st birthday. Now its time for real work! John’s friend Andi is here helping as we begin the long list of updating, renovating, repairing and preparing for the summer season. [...]

So last nights’s post election party didn’t quite go to plan! As expected polls closed about 4pm and by 5.30 first results in the regional elections were in and Carinthia had voted overwhelmingly for the BZÖ – not the result we wanted to hear. But locally no news from the counting in Malta. At 7pm [...]

Just got back from casting our first vote outside the UK. Our membership of the EU and documented residency in Austria allow us to vote in the local (Gemeinde) and Mayoral elections although not those for the Regional Government (interesting distinction?). So along with our fellow Maltingers, we queued patiently this morning to cast our [...]