welcome dinner for Brian with mixed starters and for main: bread dumplings, roast pork and potatoe salad and for dessert "podwidl tascherl" and strawberry tiramisu

Katharina spend 2 weeks language holiday in England and arrived tonight in Munich

candle light dinner today was my turn: rucola soup with smoked salmon roll

radish carpaccio with tuna covered in wasabi and radish leaves

monkfish saltimbocca with risoni pasta

Vesakh festival in Westpark - great ceremony , vietnamese, thai, tibetian and japanese dancers, lots of food stalls, programm for kids, thai chi in different styles, qi gong, karate, meditation, mantra singers and lots of other performances

Lion dancers

it was raining most of the time and we felt very sorry for the great dancers

4 day trip to Vienna ! We went by train and that was our hotel close to the center of town

to start our sightseeing tour, first an ice cream

"Pestsäule"

around the "Stephansdom", the main church of Vienna, was a festival

"Fiaker"

Heldenplatz

parliament house

Herbert picked this restaurant to celebrate his birthday and our 19. wedding anniversary

the "birthday boy"

town hall by night

first this morning, we went to the "Strudlstiege"

"Cafe Hawelka" is a "must" for a cup of coffee

Karlskirche

lunch at "Naschmarkt"

there we bought delicious vinegar and oil

river "Wien"

memorial for "Johann Strauß" in Stadtpark

we went to this "Heurigen Lokal" for dinner in "Nußdorf"

Schloß Schönbrunn

thats a "must do" - a ride with the wellknown ferris wheel at "Prater"

look from the top stop

lunch in the park

Look from the "Donau Insel Brücke"

traditional restaurant for dinner

Herbert enjoying his "Schnitzel"

on our last day, we went first to see the house from the famous artist and architect "Friedensreich Hundertwasser"

"Hundertwasser Haus"

tourist shop in "Hundertwasser Village"