Dobra večer,prijatelji!

We made it to Sarajevo by bus (a trip of hellish 13 hours - new record!!) two days ago. My girl is giving a concert here in two days (at the Bosnian Institute) & we are staying with her parents. Very nice people who gave me a hearty welcome.
Tina showed me around the old town of Sarajevo today - a lovely place to be, with a lot of cafes and so on. But it is very busy, too.

Hopefully i will see a bit more when Tina has finished her concert - she is really deep in preparations now.

It is quite funny as i try to communicate with Tina's parents; we don't speak a language the other understands.
But I'm lucky 'cause Tina's brother is fluently in English and it's very kind of him to do the translation work - thanks, much appreciated.

Ugodan većer,

C

PS: Siegi, I'm pretty sure, this time i' ve done it all correct with your postal code, otherwise i owe you a beer on friday

Hi!

I took a short holiday on the croatian island of Krk (see Album Krk) the last weekend, which was quite nice, indeed. Cloudless sunny sky, the sea (which was at the swimable temperature of 63 F /17°C, brr; but who dares, wins as they say).

As some of you might know,I was never one of those guys writing cards (that's the reason for this BLOG). Still i decided to write at least one to Siegi, but it went wrong right from the start.

First of all i bought the card and a stamp and got it in a paperbag. I took out the card on the way to the beach to store it away in one of my pockets and threw away the paperbag. Ages later it came to my mind that with the paperbag i got rid of the stamp, too - lol.

On the beach, I wrote some nice holiday babbling on the card, realizing that Siegis postal code was not on my mind.

No problem- go home buy a stamp, look up the address in your cell phone and send the card.

I went home got the stamp and sent the card, done and done.

I guess you already checked that I did not fill in the postal code, a fact I stumbled over one day later, an hours distance from home. Sorry Siegi, but if you ever get the card i have been very lucky, cause the whole postal code reads like:

Mr Siegi O... Scotland/Europe LOL

Enjoy the Pics

Greetings C

Hoi chummers!

I attended a concert (classical music) last Wednesday. Tough it was quite nice, it was a challenge for the hosting organization (I won't mention names) - a challenge they did not master very well.
The Announcer was so busy with self-praising the hosting organization, that she really saw no importance to introduce the artists by name (lol).
The funniest thing to me was, that the day before the janitor of the venue had no idea that there would be a concert next day.
Although he knew that F&B for the high- ups of the hosting organization were already in the fridge (LMAO).

I won't mention the salary discussion afterwards in detail.

Greetings and a happy Easter time!

C

Hi chummers!

Yesterday I attended a 'Phunk' Gig, an aquaintance of mine and his band, the NEW GROOVE COALITION
played.
The venue was the LUFTBAD in the Luftbadgasse in the 6th precinct, a nice location with a separated small ' concert area'. So you can join the musicians live, or stay outside und watch through a panorama window.

The band spread hot vibes during their session (thanks to their vocalist), perfectly including the audience in the performance.

Various guest vocalists, changing of instruments in between the band members, the intimate ' club gig character' and the company of nice people (thanks to Rosie and Marksman for joining me) made it a really cool evening.

CYLA

C

Hi!

Today I took the (probably) last visit to the lake for swimming for this season [ Album On the beach].
And it was marvelous - sunshine, no clouds - great.

The water has an estimated temperature of 70 °F or 20 something centigrade (first time I was swimming this season, it was not that warm).

So I had quite a nice afternoon. Hopefully the weather stays this we than the season could be prolongated to the last weekend in september.

If not, then today was "Badeschluss".

Greetings

C

Hoi Chummers!

First of all i'd like to apologize for the bad quality of the photos [Album Biking], but my cell phone was all that i got.

Nevertheless it was a beautiful day, with a really warm afternoon. Despite using sunblocker, i burned my skin again (maybe in involuntary attempt to equalize skin and hair color).
If the week stays with that temperature a saison closing event at the Neufelder See might be possible.

In the end the tour was about 25 -30 km long, including a few stops and some delicious eggs with bacon roasted in lard, yummi.

Thanks to my parents for inviting me there.

... but if you try sometimes you would might find...

Life is not fair!!

Some start a new work, some still have holidays (another 2 weeks) and still OTHERS go to the Isle of Arran to drink & buy (and hopefully get me) some wonderful SINGLE MALT Whisky.

I should have stayed there.

To be honest, anybody gets his fair share of amenities and I will not complain, starting my new job today. I think it will be great fun.

CYLA

C

Why, by the nine hells, have i left E-Burgh?
Nice city, nice company, and warm sunny weather.

24th August 06, 0430 hours, E-Burgh. Still an hour before dawn, but no morning chill and NO rain.

24th August 06, 0730 hours, London, Stansted: Heavy rain :-(

During the 30 yds from the plane to the terminal building i got reasonably wet, lol.

25 th August, at an unknown time before dawn, Vienna: Heaviest rain!! I got out of my slumber ' cause the rain drops kept hammering on the tin roof of the parking lots next to my window with deafening volume.
But in this moment between the dreamlands and conscious awareness I thought "Rain in E-burgh, at last"...

CYLA

C