Dublin Food Tour

In order to preview the city, learn a bit of history, and of course absorb the food culture, we took a tour with Delicious Dublin Tours owner Ketty Quigley.  She provided a thousand years off history through the lens of cuisine in a a few hours.  We learned the history of the potato and the positive impact of the EU formation - lots of new food varieties melding in with the Irish stews, soda breads, and sausages.

Irish Coffee:

Scones and Preserves:

Irish Stews and Soda Breads:

Ice cream (every country has it!):

Irish Whisky:

Feeling perfectly full, we moved on to Trinity College where, despite torrential rain falls, we laughed through the campus with a lively student guide.

Ireland: Day 1 in Dublin

For our summer escape, we flew to Dublin to spend a week in Ireland with Heather and Brian.  The first day we checked into our hotel and immediately sought Five Guys.  Knowing it would likely be another year before we enjoyed a greasy lil' cheeseburger, we savoured every bite.

After dinner, we strolled back to the hotel taking in the people, sounds, and energy of this lively city.  So different from Vienna.....

Last Baseball Game of the Spring Season

Last Week of School

Emily ended her year with a one hour student led conference.  She showed us a poem on how she grew, a project on expressions and equations, and her favourite art project focused on shadows and lights.

Ready for summer......

Vienna Hike 1

Hiking in the Vienna Woods draws many visitors to this city.  This green space provides refuge from the concrete, stuffy First District.  To emphasise this trait, the city created seven hikes all based within its limits.   

In May, we  followed the red lines to complete the eight-mile Hike 1.

We finished the day at a BBQ fair.

Photo Catastrophe

Eight weeks since my last post.  Why?

My iMac crashed after seven years of photo editing, internet searching, and YouTube watching.

Unrecoverable according to the Austrian Apple employee, "You didn't back up your files" he says incredulously almost accusingly.

"No. Excuse, Excuse, Excuse," I say.

He shrugs his shoulders.

So here I am with m why new MacBook Pro catching up with the photos left on my memory card.