Bratislava

Lena visited me this week in Vienna. The last time I saw her was in June 2010. Lena is one of my best friends. I met her in 2007, but I think we haven't seen each other more than 5 times since then.
She spent three days at my place in Vienna and on the second day we went to Bratislava by train. Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and it's only 1h 10min (by train) away from Vienna. I have never been to Slovakia, neither has Lena. Which is sad because it's so close. Vienna is so close to Slovakia and my hometown is so close to Hungary. I think we should know more about our neighboring countries.
Austria has eight neighboring countries, now I've been to four of them. I'm not sure if that's a lot. I've been to Italy many times. I was in Hungary last summer...to go shopping in a grocery store. I spent more than a week in Germany last summer and now I spent a day in Slovakia. Still missing: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Liechtenstein.
What I can say about Bratislava is that the historic center is way smaller than we expected it to be and that it is amazingly empty. We planned to spend the whole day there, but already got bored after a few hours (that's why went back to Vienna in the early afternoon and spent the rest of the day in the museum).
Here are some pics. Sorry, I didn't put much effort in taking good pictures.

the historic center was pretty. I liked the colorful details at the buildings.

Lena. We had fun even though we got a bit bored. 

We read in the tourist guide that there's a blue church a bit outside of the historic center and Lena got all excited and said like 10 times that she has to see it because she's never seen a blue church before. So we walked all the way to see a blue church and we both loved it. 

And it was good to leave the center a bit and walk through the residential area and see how people live. You really can't compare our neighbors to the east with Austria...it's so different.

weekend all week long.

Being on vacation is a lot like the weekend just longer. It's wonderful to forget which day it is or even look how late it is. It doesn't matter.

This is the last Picture/Quote/Italy post. Here are the links to the previous posts:
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Picture taken in Lignano Sabbiadoro/Italy, June 2011.

turn like a record.

This black dot in the picture is not a mysterious phenomenon of nature, no, it's just the sign that my camera will probably die soon. My camera stopped working for a while after I dropped it in the sand. It worked again after I hit it with my hand really hard. Yes, this works. And then this black dot appeared. And now it's gone again and my camera is working fine...I hope it will live for at least one more year. I need my camera and I can't afford a new one at the moment :/

Picture taken by my mom in Lignano Sabbiadoro/Italy. June 2011.

on the sides of the border.

On our way to Italy I noticed how the houses changed. If nobody had told me that we were in Italy I would still have recognized it. As soon as we passed the border the houses and churches looked Italian. It's interesting. A border is just an invisible line in the landscape and still it makes such a big difference on which side of the line you are.

The reason why I love to quote lyrics from Ezra Furman and the Harpoons is easy to explain. You just have to look at this quote. How can someone on this planet possibly write something like that? I don't get it. I could never write lyrics like that...

Picture taken in Lignano Sabbiadoro/Italy, June 2011.

Day 06 - a place i've been to.

Today was my third day at university. I like it a lot. It's completely different from school even though some parts are the same. 

One thing which is a bit strange at the moment, is that I don't have to be at university the whole day. When I was at school I had to be at school at 7.40 a.m. every day and left school about 2 p.m. every day. University is different. You go there, leave after some hours, come back later and so on. Today I went there at 5.30 p.m. and left at 8 p.m!

I spent my free day (almost free day) with my brother, who came to Vienna to visit me :) 

Enough from university! I have only 24 minutes left to write my challenge post (it's 11.36 p.m.)

 

A picture of and a story about somewhere that I’ve been to.

I love to talk about such places I've been to. I don't want to share you only one picture and want to share you three of my favourite places.

Venice

(I took this picture in 2007)

Venice is my favourite place in Italy. I love Italy, but it is not my favourite country. But Venice is definitely one of my favourite cities ever. I want to go back there again and again and I could imagine to live there for some time (maybe a year...)

  The first time I was in Venice I was about 4 years old. I can't remember my first Venice trip. I've seen lots of pictures of Venice and read books about it and I completely fell in love. And then my family went there again in 2007. I was super excited and I'm still in love :)

London

(picture taken in 2007)

I love England. And London is amazing. I want to go there again so bad! 

I was in England two times. One week with my family and one and a half week with my school. It was amazing!

I have some other favourite places in England. For example Beachy Head. I love it. There's a funny story behind my experiences with Beachy Head. Beachy Head is a wonderful place, but most of the time you can only see tourists there. After I went there with my school, our host family asked while eating dinner what we did this day. So my friends and I told them, that we went to Beachy Head. And the uncle of the family (I'll never forget this guy. He was so cool and funny! :D) was shocked and said "What? Do you want to kill yourself?"

We were confused and they told us, that people in Britain go to Beachy Head when they want to commit suicide. Of course they know that it is a tourist place as well. The cliffs are beautiful. I don't know how people can commit suicide at such a beautiful place. I would completely forget about my decision to kill me if I see this amazing creation.

There is one more place I love in England. It's a small village in the South. I forgot the name. I think something with an A. I wrote it down in my diary. I totally have to bring my diaries to Vienna! I need them all the time!!!

The place behind the church in Aabenraa/Denmark

(picture taken in 2009)

Maybe it sounds strange, but I love this place. It's beautiful and calm. And I spent some great time there with Ines (best friend - see Day 04).

There are more places I love. At the moment I live in one of my favourite cities. I love Vienna! :)

That's it. It's already after midnight and I have some more things to do. 

Bye! :)

 

Germany, Denmark and back home

I'm back! Actually I'm back since last Saturday. Sorry for not posting earlier, but I wasn't in the right mood to write something about my vacation.
It was awesome.
As I mentioned in my last post I was in Germany. I spent 9 days there. I was there to visit a friend of mine - Kathrin. I've never met her before (we are e-mail friends) and it was cool to see her in person. I was terribly nervous, because she didn't know anything about my arrival. Her parents and her sister arranged it and they wanted to surprise her to her 18th birthday. I was something like the "special guest" at her birthday party.

Some of you asked me for pictures. Of course, I took some. I didn't take a lot, because most of the time we stayed in the same area and the landscape is a lot like the one I know from my home.

I was in the west of Germany...

And no, I wasn't in Italy ;)

I LOVE the houses! They are so beautiful

Sorry, I don't have more pictures. I have some more, but they didn't turn out good.

After 9 days Germany I continued my trip and went to Denmark. I was there last year (you can read about it HERE!) and I went there again for the same reason. I went there to write. Yes. Writing! Who doesn't love writing?
I participate in writing workshops every year. It's always a highlight of the year. One week writing and I love it to meet other young people who have the same interests.
Oh, if you're wondering, we were in Denmark, but we wrote in German. In the South of Denmark everybody can German, that's really cool. It's the same thing in Italy and Hungary. The people who live near the border can speak German, but most of the people on the Austrian side can't speak Italian oder Hungarian. I don't live far away from the Hungarian border, but I only know a single Hungarian word...that's sad.
Okay, back to Denmark ;)
I took photos there as well.

writing (post cards :P)

at the beach

real writing

That's it! I hope you like the pics.

As you can see at the list in my sidebar there is a "x" at "visit three different countries". Yeah! I reached it! I was in Germany, Denmark and Hungary.
9 days Germany
7 days Denmark
1 day Hungary

Enough for today!

a bit late, but...

Here are some photos of my Denmark trip.

The sea

landscape (I love the clouds!)

a church

click at the photo so you can see the bubbles better

Denmark is beautiful, but I didn't take many photos.