so what have i done this summer??

I keep thinking whether this summer has been productive or not.. so im gonna list it out..

1. I met a great family from Austria with 2 beautiful children
2. I traveled 11 cities/towns in Italy in 11 days with a good friend
3. I stocked up on vit D
4. I got to meet Zoe in Salerno!
5. I sold my art for the first time
6. I finished the Twilight saga
7. I painted
8. I saw Oasis! with great supporting bands
9. I read Nanny Matilda a book in German
10. I went up to st ands for grad week
11. I did a 250m high top rope thing
12. I fell in love with a country that I never expected to - Austria
13. I went to Tyrol.. seen some of the alps
14. I learnt a lot of austrian cooking
15. I never got stressed or angry or sad once when I was in Austria.. im very chilled these days...
16. The kids made me laugh until my tummy hurt everyday when I was in Austria

... I'll keep thinking... this shall be updated

sooo the last week or so!!

last weekend we had americans staying and we did sooo much touristy things around carinthia! we went top rope climbing, hiking along waterfalls and did some crazy height things.. which i was a bit scared.. but i managed!

this week has been a bit slow.. its been soooo hot here! im tired everyday and the kids are going mental! haha

babysat them 2 nights ago.. maybe my worst night as they wouldnt stop screaming.. Tina this Tina that etc etc! i went a bit nuts.. but it inspired me that night somehow.. I wrote a song in less than 20 minutes.. i was quite pleased.

The kids are really bonding with me these days and Im getting very attached which i dont think is good. The little one is always 'Tina.. where are you!?' in a funny german accent.. 

Im moving out the house on sunday as im staying with the grandparents next week with the kids as well as the mum. It makes the moving easier. So i have to pack this weekend.. kinda starting to kick in that I have to leave this place.. man im gonna miss all of this..

Kinda getting sad now.. haha but ive been soo busyyy doing what i dont even know.. just trying to spend time playing with the kids as much as possible these days.. they are really funny kids.. 

living the weekends..

Last weekend I was in Tyrol, the alps of austria and it was .. beautiful.. 

We stayed at the fathers aunts place and she not only spoilt the kids with lots of sugar goodness but me too.. soo i was very much hyper the entire weekend. We chilled at her house a lot and her 'pond is her swimming' pool.. i was swimming with water lilies.

We hiked up around the hills behind up and saw some very stereotypical alpine landscape.. waterfalls, trees and deers!

We came back from Tyrol on Monday and it has been sooo busy since..

I shall write up these days soon after this weekend.. 2 weeks left here.. im absorbing as much as I can as the family, the country, the landscape is.. beautiful.. I have already made my retirement plans.. :)

busy busy VIENNA!!

Soo these last few days I have been away from the kids and St Kollmanns. From sunday to wednesday I was in Vienna on my own staying with the mum's brother's family. Her brother and girlfriend were really nice and they helped me a lot with my travel plans!

On sunday I arrived in vienna around 1pm and went to schonbrunn palace which was really near to her brother's flat. The palace was gorgeous and I did an audio guide tour and saw 40 rooms in the palace which was spectacular. I walked around the grounds and the plants and views were soo beautiful! 

On monday I went and walked all around district 1 and saw most of the palaces and monuments. It was sooo tiring! I then saw harry potter haha (it started to rain!) bit disappointed with the film, and then later I watched Carmen the opera on the big screen outside the Rathouse.

On tuesday it was raining soo heavily that I decided to do museums! well first in the morning i went to the stadtpark and then later I went to Kunsthistorisches museum.. took me a long time.. and the highlight had to be the Rafael paintings. I managed to get into a viennese coffee shop which was very cutesy. Later at night I went to see the opera the Vogelhandler at the schonnbrunn theater.. apart from that it was all in german and that I struggled with the humours etc I felt I got the idea of the opera. 

But yeah all in all Vienna was a great break from the kids and I felt I was back traveling again.. however it made me missed daz and zoe. 

I will put up the photos later!

Another great news my HOLGA 135 camera has arrived!! and it is beautiful.. its a toy camera what do you expect! im soo excited to start taking film now! enough of this digital crap..

Oh and I am going to Tyrol tomorrow! its near the Alps and we get to drive up some greta mountains! im excited! will be back on monday..