So, we did finally get some snow. I would have loved to enjoy it fully today, but I was caught between packing up the old flat and resting as I am pretty sick. So I very quickly took this very ordinary photo at Schwedenplatz on my last trip home. Now, rest, sleep, more antibiotics and then more packing to do tomorrow!
A bit of an unusual sight late last night . Normally it would have been cleared already, but yesterday the snow clearing crews probably had too much to do elsewhere.
So, today it snowed a little. Ok, a fair bit… On the way home we passed a tram that had derailed, two cars that were stuck and this bus, which I not so elegantly managed to take a photo of. Total mayhem! Alex has been stuck on a bus for over an hour now, and it’s still snowing…
It’s fine if this lasts for another three months. I’m now into my final stage of doctoral work, which includes writing a monograph and taking the final test. So apologies for a less frequently updated blog! I took this yesterday while taking a break.
The woods on Kahlenberg are still covered in snow, unlike the rest of yhe city.
Why not… I don’t have time to go outside anyway! 😛 This is what the backyard looked like this morning.
Still snowing 🙂
Lots of it!! Can’t wait to get downtown and see what it’s like down there 😀
Earlier today in the Belvedere gardens. Snow! We like.
Hurrah!!
Ok, this is a snow machine that’s preparing a slope for the kids in Prater. We were out walking today before the snow started falling, and then the city of Vienna were the ones in charge of the snow. The temperature has dropped over the weekend, so I guess they grabbed the opportunity to prepare the slope. 🙂
Loving it!
Loook! look! it’s snowing!!! Ok, so it wasn’t that much, but hey! It’s the first snow this winter!!! Stoked 😀
Bring on nice cold winter days with white sugarcoating on everything!
A bit grey and gloomy today, but still a lot of people were out enjoying the snow. This is in the park by the Hofburg, looking towards city hall (Rathaus).
It keeps snowing. And since I’ve nowhere to go, being still sick and all, let it snow. What do I care. Snow makes everything prettier. 🙂
This is the train to St. Valentin – how is that for appropriate? 😀
Although it is almost not allowed, ‘Everyday life in Vienna’ is going on a weekend trip! People who live in Vienna do take weekend trips, so I think it’s forgivable if I post one or two pictures from the trip this coming weekend; if nothing else it will give you a great insight into a ski-weekend that is perfectly possible to do from Vienna. And before you know it, I’ll be back home to continue the the safe and familiar documentation of everyday life. I hope you’ll enjoy it! 🙂
Get a mean machine!
This morning citizens all over Vienna were busy clearing the streets. Here in Austria, it is the home owner’s responsibility to keep the pathway outside of the house clear, even if it is a public one… 🙂
These cars awake some sort of admiration in me. Any car that can drive a snow plough is totally worthy. 😀
I got my wish today! More snow! Ice cream anyone?
Was kinda weird to see this little fly standing outside on the snow. Not entirely sure where it came from, maybe it thought that it was spring already??
These little poles that are attached to the walls of the buildings and kinda stick out onto the sidewalk, that they put right in front of you on the sidewalk – they have a purpose!! They’re supposed to make people walk a bit out from the wall, where a rooftop avalanche potentially would hit if you get slippage… there’s a lot of snow now on the rooftops. I’m still unconvinced that this would save lives/prevent huge damages…. 😀
I left my lunch in the ‘big fridge’ (outside) today, and by the time it was time to eat it, it looked like this. Really a lot of snow coming down today! It’s amazing! I love it. 🙂 Will stay like this for another couple of days at least. whoppeeee!
In prater there is a slope where all the kids go sliding. It’s probably one of the only hills in central Vienna, come to think of it… 😛
Nice to see all the kids having fun. Some of them went really fast! I remember my local slope when I was a kid. Do you remember yours? 🙂
Thick snowflakes falling in my backyard a couple of hours ago. I’m at home sick, so no chance to go out and see if the snow was settling anywhere, but it was 5.8 degrees outside so I doubt it. It’s probably nice and white up at work though! I’m eagerly awaiting snow.. Christmas markets and everything just looks better in white somehow!
The first snow has arrived! Ok, it’s not thick and white wonderful snow, but your average first snow which is a thin layer that kids make the most of. Like here, where someone has made two snowmen in front of the church up at Kahlenberg. It’s pretty awesome though, not long now and it’ll be Christmas!! Wheeeeee! 🙂
