18/30: Flying across Germany and Austria

Flying alone to Salzburg meant another flight where I was glued to the window, taking aerial photos of what I could when we were low enough and not covered in woolly clouds. There was nobody else in my row, so I felt no guilt about hogging the window the way I did, enjoying as always [...]

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12/30: Happy birthday to me

What a long day. It started early in Salzburg, with my boy and a surprise cake, sparkling candle and singing and ended in England with my girls and more surprise cake, celebratory fire and singing. In between came a lot of talking in German, a flight home, my traditional failure to unpack properly, if at [...]

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11/30: Above the mist

This morning there was a little bit of work to be done, followed by a reasonable amount of cake to be eaten in the city with Katja. After a long lunch at which I met someone else I’d previously known only through the net, we headed up into the persistent mist to the Gaisberg mountain. [...]

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10/30: Deer and watering cans

Not sure where the promised sunshine went today. I guess it was up there somewhere above all the mist. The ORF will be getting a letter from me about their promises of blue skies though. Did some work today and afterwards took advantage of the comfy couch and fell asleep for a while. My host [...]

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9/30: First day

Up at 6am, taxi to the airport, up and down many escalators at Gatwick airport, be talked to by a very talkative man called Dave, fly in the sky, land on the ground, look at the mountains, eat artistic “brain food”, try not to fall asleep at Hangar 7, have lift doors shut on head [...]

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8/30: New lovely

Lookit, I has a new bag! I’m off to Salzburg early tomorrow morning and since I’m flying with BA this time, rather than Ryanair, I’m not being charged for the joy of checked luggage. So instead of stuffing everything into my big rucksack and trotting through the airport with something on my back not much [...]

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2/30: Peaks

Of course there’s always the danger that I’ll get halfway through this month of posting and run out of things to say. Suzy tells me that we’ll make sure to Do Exciting Stuff to avoid that happening though. The first half of the month shouldn’t be too difficult, as I’m spending several days of it [...]

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NYC: Last day in Manhattan

We were pretty exhausted by the time our final day in New York City dawned. We had the day marked as one for a bit of shopping, a bit of wandering and going with the flow. For starters we’d organised a late check-out, which was very much the kind of flow we were happy with. [...]

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