One of the following does not help achieve a high rating in terms of street cred: (a) Sitting in the priority seats (b) Having a friend decked out in hop-hop street fashion (c) wearing a leather jacket (d) dying your…
DelDecember 29, 2013
Today is my birthday, so I got to call the shots! I dragged the long-suffering MM round some of the less than salubrious parts of Vienna, but we still managed to find time to drink champagne and eat cake (@James…
DelDecember 27, 2013
MisterMac gave me a book called Stadtbahnbogen - a collection of photographs of the arches underneath the railway lines in Vienna, from which we see an astonishing array of different businesses. We decided to blow away the Christmas cobwebs and…
DelDecember 26, 2013
Bottoms up, Prost, cin cin, a votre sante, За здоровя, Živjeli, Skål, Salut, Proost, Na zdravi, Egészségedre!
DelDecember 25, 2013
... and it wasn't even close. The 2013 Advent Calendar draws to a close with Santa amongst the dustbins. My quest to record how Christmas is represented has been an interesting journey, albeit painful at times. From the Christmas pudding…
DelDecember 24, 2013
I'm wondering if Vienna's Christmas lights are sponsored? While the world and its wife fought its way around the shops and rocked around the Christmas tree, MisterMac and I snuck off to the pictures and saw The Butler. Rather more…
DelDecember 23, 2013
This was an easy one as the local cake shop is doing advent cakes and #22 was in the window - I expect, if I'd been paying attention, I would have seen #21 in the window yesterday. Saw the brilliant…
DelDecember 22, 2013
Today is the shortest day and if I ruled the world, Christmas would not be allowed to start until today. However, as I don't, Christmas can start whenever it likes and I seem to recollect that I recorded its 2013…
DelDecember 21, 2013
I'm getting a bit bored with this Advent malarkey! But, I've started so I'll finish and there are only five more to go. Being side-tracked by far more interesting things today, I nearly forgot an advent shot and remembered just…
DelDecember 20, 2013
Some of the things we have seen and done today have been absolutely stunning, and finding unspoilt pockets of old Prague has been great fun. But, the city does seem to be turning itself into a 24/7 night club, which…
DelDecember 19, 2013
3G isn't happening and hotel wi-fi is intermittent at best. Will save my observations about th Czech Reublic and its identity crisis for another time. Suffice it to say, P seems to revolve around Russian dolls, Venetian glass, gambling, cheap…
DelDecember 18, 2013
Not many to choose from today because of a near catastrophe. I can't begin to count how many times I've removed the bottom plate of my camera to change either the card or the battery, and I thought it was…
DelDecember 17, 2013
And a rather dapper looking Frosty at that. So any illusions I had, that being in a foreign clime would lead to a better class of advent subject, have been firmly dismissed today. My favourite find was the underpants with…
DelDecember 16, 2013
Not a very inspiring shot, but then Heathrow airport is far from inspiring. We arrived rather early, so I trotted into W H Smith to buy a camera comic - a traditional treat at the start of a holiday. On…
DelDecember 15, 2013
Christmas card writing in our household does not take long. We have managed to get the list down to 5 this year - preferring something electronic in poor taste (which will be winging its way out this week), but as…
DelDecember 14, 2013
But not for me, for I have found Jesus! Actually, that's not quite true - Wilcey found Jesus for me. We were just looking in the charity shop window (I've become rather obsessed with charity shops since someone told me…
DelDecember 13, 2013
In my quest for pix for the Advent Calendar, I am becoming something of an expert on the meaning of Christmas. Way out in the lead is Santa, the reindeer are in second place with indeterminate fluffy creatures taking third…
DelDecember 10, 2013
The flat is almost empty and ready for the decorators. Well done to the Abacus boys for moving all that stuff down six flights of stairs - big hugs and thanks! There are advantages to living on the top floor…
DelDecember 9, 2013