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albern port

The most beautiful of all ugly ports of Vienna. I absolutely love this place, did I say this already sometime, here on my blog?



(Ahem ... I think so ...)

off to work

I'm walking along here every day, on my way to work. What you can see here is the first blizzard of Vienna in this winter, and the first day when we had snow of any quantity worth mentioning.

litter

no entry

device for polluting air irresponsibly

I know this has nothing to do with climate change as such, as climate change began long before mass abuse of aviation kicked in, and thus also isn't really directly related to the extremely mild winter we're experiencing here in Austria this year.

It's just one of those pet topics of mine which I ought to bring up on occasion. Aviation is highly overrated, if you ask me; there's so much beauty to be seen in your nearest neighbourhood, why spend millions of gallons of oil on getting to Thailand, or Iceland for that matter?

grounded

railway train

No, really, I love travelling by rail.

roadside

They're all quite different shots. Really! Just take a closer look. ;-)

i hate flying

no doubt

So here you go, you Doubting Thomas, your 'white snow':

I only didn't show any so far as white snow can be pretty dumb and boring, of which I think the photo above gives some impression. And here below you can see, I think, sufficient evidence that no snow guns were involved:

Who after all would think of making snow on roads? But as this, I hope, is clear now let's again return to what this blog is really about - nice shots, for which no boring white snow neither snow on a road are needed:

(We actually spray the snow red, for the benefit of our tourists who like the world colourful.)

air oberlaa

You wouldn't believe what I saw today, on Favoriten Airport (the small southern airport of Vienna), just besides the Air Oberlaa hangar:

Here we go then - the flags of the two city rivals in football, Rapid Wien and Austria Wien, side by side:

Which of course is at least as scandalous as if there would fly the flags of Barça and Real, or Celtic and Rangers, or Arsenal and Chelsea, or even Schalke and Leverkusen which aren't "exactly" city rivals as they're both clubs of individual towns respectively, but they're nevertheless "city rivals of the Ruhr Pott".

Or in other words: the mere thought the flags of Austria Wien and Rapid Wien side by side, arm in arm so to speak, is just inconceivable - it won't happen, never ever never! But still, here it is ...

(... oh well, okay - you've got the point, or if you haven't you never will, so I might just explain things. :) The first photo really shows Honeymoon Air, as you can see for yourself if you care to take a look. Obviously, Dagmar and Georg are getting married, and also, quite obviously, they're fans of Rapid and Austria respectively - so this actually is a prank of their friends.)

jetlag

They're flying with everything they've got to bring back home those passengers stranded all over the place.

A friend of mine has been unlucky, his flight was cancelled, and another one hopes to be lucky when he's flying to Edinburgh next week. I wish them well of course, but apart from that I still couldn't care less about this Eyjafjallajökull thing.

puzzle

A flat, a caravan, or something else entirely? Whatever be the case, the composition is what matters.

(No worries if you were waiting for flowers; you can expect some in tomorrow's blog post.)

wind

Stormy weather ahead hereabouts - temperatures still remain more wintery than springy, and strong winds add some wind chill factor. But I suppose winter can't hold off spring forever, or is this the Age of Ragnarök?

marchwinter

What you see here is the border of Vienna and Schwechat communities - the border does not run along the road but in right angles to it.

As to why I'm showing you such an ugly place - well, this march's winter is still holding us in its firm grip; although the snow which fell recently again has melted away almost completely there's more to come tomorrow, and on the weekend.

I'm not exactly thrilled about the prospect, I expected spring to come pretty soon (so obviously Punxsutawney Phil still was right, there's still plenty of winter left). But today I could again observe that the buds of trees are about to explode - it'll need only a couple of warm days and everything will be green and flowering.

railway

not so dull

Well, this still is wintery landscape, but at least the light isn't as dull as it was yesterday.

snow

For the very first time this winter there have been significant amounts of snow right here in Vienna: roughly twenty centimetres, and there's more on its way say meteorologists.

Unfortunately, light was rather flat, it was overcast most of the time - the sun just couldn't break through the cloud cover. There's sun forecast for tomorrow - but while today is a holiday (Three Kings, to be precise: the three guys presenting young Brian of Nazareth with their gifts which they then, unkindly, took away again, if you remember) I will have to begin work tomorrow before the sun will rise, and I won't be home long after it has set again. So this can't be helped, you'll just have to contend yourselves with those flat-lighted photos.