Blogging Anniversary - 10 years

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A while ago I checked when I did my first blog post, in order to celebrate with an anniversary post. Well, that day came and went without any reaction from me. Better late than never, so here a reminder of my very first blog post from 24 October 2012.  The book was New Finnish Grammar  by Diego Marani. Marani is an Italian novelist, translator and newspaper columnist. While working as a translator for the European Union he invented a language ‘Europanto’ which is a mixture of languages and based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many EU languages. It was a suitable book to start with, being a book about letters, languages and memories. With a beautiful prose, the novel went directly to my heart.  "One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship, Pietri Friari gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can ide...
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Camping in Austria

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Summer time, holiday time. I am presently in Austria holidaying. The weather has been fabulous so me and my husband decided to inagurate our new tent, that we bought last year. We found it on the Caravan Fair in Düsseldorf and it was delivered to us in March this year. It is a big tent, so you can easy stand inside. It is really a tent to use with you car, but can also be used independently.


We started out at Achensee, a beautiful alpine lake, 9 km long with tropical, green water. It is also icing cold. This year it had a record 19,5 C, due to the goo weather. Huuh! But, when you are warm and sweaty after a walk along the mountain walls of the lake, it is still quite ok. Once your in it is wonderful. It was a great camping facitily, with new sanitary areas, worthy a very good hotel. The village offered enough of restaurants to keep you going for a while. 



After a couple of days there we continued to Walchsee, where we got a spot just by the water. Totally beautiful. We could walk straight out of our tent into the water. Here the water has a temperature of around 22-23 C. What a treat. The fantastic thing here is that you are swimming with the mountains around you. It is a strange and wonderful feeling. Sooo beautiful.


Back to Innsbruck for a couple of days, before we headed out again. We decided to go back to Walchsee and now there are hardly any tenters here. I am now sitting outside our tent, by the lake writing this post. It is wonderfully quite, pieceful and a treat for the general body.


We have not been camping since our son was young, when we used to go camping in Domburg in Holland with friends. We took the weekend off from Brussels and had a great time. The kids loved it. 

I can´t go anywhere without a book of course. I am reading Mansfield Park for Austen in August, but am only a third in, so might not be able to finish it on time. I am also reading an intriguing book I got from my friend Leigh, when he visited, An Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughn. I hope to finish it off before August.

Time to go back to my books!




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  1. Jeanie30 August 2018 at 14:46

    It looks like a wonderful holiday -- very beautiful territory over there. Rick would be so pleased to know that there are people who tent-camp. So many over here have trailers. He says "If you want all the conveniences of home, why don't you just stay home?" What is better than to be in the open air with a good book?

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    1. Lisbeth 20 September 2018 at 11:42

      I tend to agree with Rick. It is the simpleness of life that attracts me. Although I must admit; if there were no toilet facilities I might not be so attracted, haha! A little bit of comfort is necessary.

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