Posted in A hot tip on Apr 29th, 2008
It won’t take long anymore until the pleasure boats are casting off again. I am already really excited! Every year in May the boats awake from their hibernation and circle on the lake again. And I am always one of the first to get on board and enjoy the view of Schmittenhöhe and the other [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2008
Anyone who has attended big conferences, conventions or seminars, which sometimes even last several days knows, this scenario: the schedule is packed, presentations take several hours, and a lot of the information given is rather useless. In fact, you are attending this conference for one selected topic and this is treated at the very end. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2008
Europe is getting larger – and smaller at the same time. Sounds weird but it’s true. As the borders of the European Union are being pushed further and further eastwards, you can travel from Porto to Warsaw or from Stockholm to Rome in no time at all.
Only recently I’ve been to the Ukraine, or [...]
Posted in Recipes on Apr 9th, 2008
The famous Guglhupf – my children used to love it! When they were small, the boys always wanted to help me. That’s ok, making a ring cake is child’s play, really. So together, we used to set about the task of making a cake. Even today, the boys are looking forward to a piece of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 4th, 2008
That’s the way it is when you are on the pistes here. I just wanted to spend some time on my skis when I bumped into… guess who! Frank Klammer in person! My friend and I stood flabbergast when we spotted ‘Franz the Great’ who was just about to stop off at the Panorama Pfiff [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2008
What a nasty weather! Actually, our day with Smokie could have been quite nice. Mike Craft, Terry Uttley, Mick McConnell, Martin Bullard, and Steve Pinnell had been invited to Schmittenhöhe to shoot some television takes and get to know the region. But the weather somehow wrecked our plans for this morning. As soon as the [...]
