Showing posts with label Gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardens. Show all posts

Monday, 24 September 2012

The sounds of Salzburg!


I am back from my travel through Austria and Germany (I only was away for 10 days but this way it sounds like I was away for ages :))!!!! 

So I decided to make 4 separate posts so I can give you all an inpression of my vacation in 4 short stories instead of 1 long tedious story. It will be as follows:

- Part Uno: Salzburg
- Part Due: Vienna
- Part Tres: Schonbrunn (which is also in Vienna)
- Part Quatro: Germany

So part uno start here! I strongly recommend to start reading and enjoy the pics!

It all starts in a town situated in Austria along the river Salzach north of the Alps. We arrived there around 4 in the afternoon on a Friday. The drive to Salzburg was pretty awesome, it was about a 8 hour drive, so basically 1 working day :)

We stayed in Haus Arenberg, a small hotel located in a quite area of Salzburg. It was pretty difficult to find, but once we arrived and entered our room it was awesome! The beds were soooo good, we had a balcony and the shower was amazing! In the morning we had breakfast on the terrace in the lovely fresh mountain air and Austrian morning sun (which of course is the same as the Dutch morning sun but it felt much nicer....).

 We had 1 full day to discover Salzburg and here is an impression of what we did and saw:


Recognize this fountain?


The view from the fortress called: Festung Hohensalzburg

The start of the Alp Mountains
Mozarts Geburtshaus a.k.a. the house Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born.
Doesn't this look amazing?!
p.s. this is the river Salzach
   
The gorgeous gardens of Schloss Mirabell
Behind the horse are the famous steps from the Sound of Music song "Do-Re-Mi"












































How I love the feeling of the soft grass under my feet!
Since this holiday had a high girly factor (Salzburg = Sound of Music and Vienna = Sissi and Reutlingen = my old University), I thought it would be good to add something my boyfriend would for sure appreciate: the Biergarten of the Augustiner Brauerei (brewery)! Here is an impression how this looks like and how it is to visit a biergarten with me....

I wasn't really drunk it is just a bad picture! Below the actual picture at is was intended:

Pfff this looks much better!
Oh and in case you wonder, the small beer was for me, I asked for the smallest and I got 0,5 liter... which is normal in this region... The "glass" I am holding in this pic is 1 liter! 

So as you can see we had a lot of fun the Salzburg! And yes I did loads of swirling! And I can really recommend you to go here and enjoy this beautiful city and do some swirling of your own!

Monday, 9 July 2012

The Bird is the Word!

So this weekend the bird was the word!

Friday:
Shopping with BF and picking up the B-day gift for my mum.

My BF really has a dislike for shopping so it is key to do it quick and painless. We went to 4 stores and bought everything in 3 of the 4 stores so we were done in 2 hours!

After we were done shopping I pick up the birthday gift for my mum, and brought it to my brother where we had to make the gift ready. While I was there I also took some nice pics of the flora & fauna in their garden :) 

I think because I don't have a garden I am always obsessed with other peoples garden... Is that weird?


Saturday:
I saw these lovely boots in the window of the Mango store last week! They kept them aside for me when the window was changed and Saturday morning I could pick them up!
In the afternoon I worked together with my new partner in crime on my blog. I needed to add some things and I want it to be more... me... more personalized and more professional. So now you can join this side via Google friend connect! And find more stories that you might like.  More is to come but that will take some time because some items will be specially designed for me. Excited?! I know I am!!!

In the evening I went to the in-laws to eat fresh homemade fries!!! But before we ate I fed the chickens and took a picture of the baby birds that they have in their garden.
Sunday:
My mum celebrated her b-day, below the gift we gave:


It is this amazing picture frame from Umbra. It took some work to get all the pics in the same sizes as the frames but my sister in-law did a great job!!!

Needless to say, my mum loved it!!!

Oh and here are also some more pics of me as an aunt :)
Enjoy your week!!! And keep me posted on your weekend adventures!

XoXo Lieke

P.s. In case you haven't heard yet: The Bird is the Word