archive for the ‘other activities’ category

up up and away

January 21st, 2009

filling up

One moment you’re sat behind your desk, tapping away at the keyboard, wishing you were outside skiing. Then, you get a call and your wife says that there is a spare place in a hot air balloon and would I like to go?…

exploring the skiwelt

December 15th, 2008

Siller-Keat Chairlift

With a load of new yellow stars dotted all over the Skiwelt Wilder Kaiser Brixental piste map saying NEU! I took the time to go and reccie as much as I could today. A lot of the development this year has taken place in Soell so it was there that I was headed…

skiwelt season open

December 8th, 2008

With the latest dumping of snow, I was excited about getting out for a bit of skiing. Only a couple of hours as I had home duties to attend to. The ‘skiwelt’ (ski world) that we live in…

noah william holt

December 3rd, 2008

It has been a woefully long time since we’ve posted on our blog, apologies to our readers. The simple and 100% fantastic reason is that we’ve had a little boy! Manu and baby Noah are happy and healthy and after a little bit of an extended stay…

autumn apple pressing

October 29th, 2008

With the numerous apple trees dotted across the landscape at the farm, it is not surprising that there are huge numbers of apples ready for eating at this time of year. A number go in to apple strudels and various…

facelift for the ramblings

October 3rd, 2008

Life should be simple. Well that is our philosophy away. Times can be hectic and we’ve certainly found that in the last couple of years! Moving over to Austria, setting up a new home and…

when you hear a whistle

September 5th, 2008

Austrian alpine marmot

An early start has benefits and drawbacks. Now we aren’t talking really early here, just getting on the lifts when they open at 9am. There really aren’t many drawbacks in fact the only serious one is…

wood chopping

August 22nd, 2008

the traditional ax

Doing the right thing feels good. There was a lot of debris wood and small timber that needed cleaning from the forest. We were out mountain biking but when we got back…

steady as she goes

August 1st, 2008

cows jumping

We’ve been very impressed with Thomson Fly over the past few weeks. The service has been spot on. Booking flights and ultimately having to reschedule both has been extremely…

elsewhere today

July 24th, 2008

Mountains

Mountain biking isn’t really on my mind today. In fact my mind is a bit wobbly. My thoughts are with my father who is in an intensive care unit in Oxford. He had a…