It's a Folk Festival where everybody is having a good time.
This "Kirchtag" was scheduled for last Sunday. Last Sunday it rained in buckets and it was colder than the North Pole. The clever people postponed the festival to today, Sunday...
and today the Sun shone from a blue sky with nary a cloud in sight.
People came from everywhere. They drove by car to the Cable Car station and some even hiked up the mountain.
It's a three hour hike... believe me I took the gondola.
Once up there I let my cameras click away.
Some of the results are posted herewith.
Let's have a beer !!!
Greetings from atop the Petzen
Bertstravels
Sunday, July 31, 2011
"KIRCHTAG" AUF DER PETZEN
From here a gondola cable car takes you 2 thirds of the way up.
Line up for the cable car.
A Cordial Welcome
from the Ski club - Petzen
More Petzen Festival
Naturally there is a good Brass Band...
...and pretty waitresses serving good beer
...there must have been thousands of happy people..
The biggest "Gamsbart"
Friends on the Petzen...
Gofi, Mitch and Lis (Lis is from Vancouver)
Baerbel and Klaus
Our neighbours and friends.
This is a bum I do not know.
but that does not mean I can't fotograph it.
More "Kirchtag" atop the Petzen
The beer is good and strong.
A lovely young lady in black Lederhosen
with a Dalmatian dog.
More crowds
In fact there were thousands...
A good time was had by all
Folk Festival on the Petzen.
In Lederhosen and modern "Dirndl"
This handsome couple looks forward
to a good time.
These two already had a good time.
A young family.
View from the Petzen
Small villages may be seen from the Petzen.
What a lovely view for all the merry-makers
Rolling hills in the valley. A church atop one of them.
The Petzen in the background.
Is this lovely country ?
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
PLATO AND A PLATYPUS walk into a Bar...
The above is the title of a wonderful little book... It helps the reader to understand philosophical concepts through jokes and it is absolutely hilariously funny.
So, go to the nearest library, order it from your neighbourhood book-store or on the internet's "amazon.com." You won't be sorry
bertstravels.
So, go to the nearest library, order it from your neighbourhood book-store or on the internet's "amazon.com." You won't be sorry
bertstravels.
Just the Point !!!
A 95 YEAR OLD MAN visits his doctor and tells him that his 20 year old wife is going to have his baby soon.
The doctor asks the man to sit down and listen to a little story: The man makes himself comfortable and the doctor says: " A man wanted to go bear hunting. On his way out the door, instead of taking his gun along, he grabbed an umbrella. No sooner is he out in the forrest than the bear comes charging out from the bushes. The man raises his umbrealla and shoots the bear dead."
"But that's impossible" says the 95 year old. "somebody else must have shot the bear."
And the doctor says with a smile on his face: "exactly my point !!!"
The doctor asks the man to sit down and listen to a little story: The man makes himself comfortable and the doctor says: " A man wanted to go bear hunting. On his way out the door, instead of taking his gun along, he grabbed an umbrella. No sooner is he out in the forrest than the bear comes charging out from the bushes. The man raises his umbrealla and shoots the bear dead."
"But that's impossible" says the 95 year old. "somebody else must have shot the bear."
And the doctor says with a smile on his face: "exactly my point !!!"
Murau, Styria - Shakespeare
The annual Sheakespeare Festival
attracts a select crowd from all over Austria.
We met a couple who had driven 5 hours,
all the way from Innsbruck.
...in the rain...
..Christin with our Airdale Terrier, called Doggy-dog-dog.
The Barn in which, if it rains, Shakespeare is performed.
Otherwise it would have been in the Courtyard
of a Castle from the Middle Ages.
SHAKESPEARE IN MURAU
The Old church and a castle tower of the small town
of Murau in Styria, Austria.
With a very good internatinal cast they perform
Shakespearian Drama.
This time it was "12th Night"
The closing bow after a lovely performance.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
We need a bigger Umbrella !!!
Well, it seems that the screeming about the U.S.A. Rating Agencies has abated somewhat. Maybe somebody told the good "Finanzkommisar", and her collegue the "Inland Trade Kommisar", both officials of the European Union, to stop issuing such stupid statements and in future, think before talking.
Now the talk is all about starting a Rating Agency all of their own. This is not a bad idea.. A few minor considerations must, however, be taken into account:
First, it takes many years for such an Agency to establish a reputation of reliability, so in the short run nothing would be solved: Major investors will still be looking for Moody's et al for an opinion.
Second, and that is truly the important consideration: It may be assumed that a new, European Rating Agency, would be free and independant, not controlled by the E.U. or any other government, and would therefore,
Third, report pretty much the same truth as the well-established rating agencies are reporting. Namely that this company, or that country has its financial house in order and well under controll and is therefore a safe bet for an investor to park his money, or, that the other company or this other country are experiencing serious financial difficulties, due to their incompetence or other negative circumstances beyond their control...
Therefore, serious investors would not likely park their hard-earned currency in this firm or purchase bonds from that country. So, it seems that nothing would change fundamentaly.
There have been Rating Agencies for 150 years and nobody complained about them. All of a sudden, however, they become the bad boys because they report the truth about wastrel countries, who cheat their own citizens and try to cheat the rest of the world.
Since the beginning of this "Financial Umbrella" business, the European Union, the European Central Bank, and other sources have made available for Greece a total of 52.5 BILLIONS of Euros.
But inspite of all the promised saving measures, the Deficit AFTER THE FIRST 6 MONTH OF 2011
stands at 12.75 Billion Euros. Fully 2.4 Billion Euros more than planned and promised.
What will the next Rating issued by S & P et all say about Greece?
When they tell the truth listen to the screeming of some European Union Officials.
Cash me a cheque...
Bertstravels
Now the talk is all about starting a Rating Agency all of their own. This is not a bad idea.. A few minor considerations must, however, be taken into account:
First, it takes many years for such an Agency to establish a reputation of reliability, so in the short run nothing would be solved: Major investors will still be looking for Moody's et al for an opinion.
Second, and that is truly the important consideration: It may be assumed that a new, European Rating Agency, would be free and independant, not controlled by the E.U. or any other government, and would therefore,
Third, report pretty much the same truth as the well-established rating agencies are reporting. Namely that this company, or that country has its financial house in order and well under controll and is therefore a safe bet for an investor to park his money, or, that the other company or this other country are experiencing serious financial difficulties, due to their incompetence or other negative circumstances beyond their control...
Therefore, serious investors would not likely park their hard-earned currency in this firm or purchase bonds from that country. So, it seems that nothing would change fundamentaly.
There have been Rating Agencies for 150 years and nobody complained about them. All of a sudden, however, they become the bad boys because they report the truth about wastrel countries, who cheat their own citizens and try to cheat the rest of the world.
Since the beginning of this "Financial Umbrella" business, the European Union, the European Central Bank, and other sources have made available for Greece a total of 52.5 BILLIONS of Euros.
But inspite of all the promised saving measures, the Deficit AFTER THE FIRST 6 MONTH OF 2011
stands at 12.75 Billion Euros. Fully 2.4 Billion Euros more than planned and promised.
What will the next Rating issued by S & P et all say about Greece?
When they tell the truth listen to the screeming of some European Union Officials.
Cash me a cheque...
Bertstravels
Friday, July 22, 2011
"Dinner time"
an old delapidated roof on our neighbour's woodshed
a red tailed finch feeds its newly hatched offspring.
The little one reminds me of "Greece"
while the older one looks a lot like the "European Union"
