Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2008
Goodbye Mohamed and Marwa! Our two colleagues from Egypt stayed with us for a two-month on-the-job training. They took care of our guests from Arabian countries with enthusiasm and kindness. When it came to working in our team we got to know them as very helpful and absolutely lovely colleagues. Now the time has come [...]
Posted in A hot tip on Aug 26th, 2008
An article about ‘green’ products here, a label promising ecological food there: due to this overload of eco certificates, it is really difficult to stay informed about what’s in the products you buy. Or do you understand why operators advertise their data-processing centres with the slogan ‘Green IT’? They consume a lot of energy - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2008
At this year’s smart times records fell again. The world record of smarts forming a long parade around Lake Zell was not only broken but taken to the next level: the length of the parade was doubled in comparison to last year’s. 743 little racers divided from each other by less than two metres covered [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2008
A boat trip is lots of fun … especially this one: every year Schmidolin, the popular holiday dragon from Schmittenhöhe, invites all his little friends from the Schmidolin Children’s Club on a pleasure trip aboard MS Schmitten - with lots of laughter, dance, and games. This time the green holiday dragon has thought up something [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2008
Normally, I am not really into anything that snakes its way through the landscape - but this is a different matter altogether. I am really looking forward to this attempt at breaking a record in the Guinness Book of Records: the plan is for the smart parade around Lake Zell to be twice as long [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2008
We had been looking forward to this event for a long time. And now it is already over. But ‘Hochkultur - There is music in the air’ wasn’t only a very successful project but something very special in every regard. One of the best orchestras in Europe and Professor Herbert Prikopa as the conductor and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2008
Only a few days to go until a very special premiere: ‘Hochkultur’ on Schmittenhöhe! For one thing that’s the Austrian operetta, for the other it’s the summit of the local mountain of Zell am See. The Johann Strauss Ensemble, one of the most renowned orchestras in Europe, is performing the most beautiful melodies from ‘The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2008
When the moon passes between the sun and the earth and as a result partially obscures the sun, we can witness a partial solar eclipse. And this was what happened today during lunch time in Zell am See and Kaprun. Of course, I couldn’t afford to miss out on such an amazing spectacle of nature [...]
