Vienna is a perfect place to think about European history, and a strange place of history – and especially so when it comes to the Imperial Treasury.
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When there is a lunar eclipse, a.k.a. a blood moon, and the longest one of the century at that, do you go out to see it?
Can you have a (micro)adventure, take a chance for microexploration, with something so simple, in a landscape that you are more than used to?
What does one tell – what is there to tell? – of the sixth participation in the same event, the Bergmarathon (mountain marathon) around the Traunsee lake?
The presentation of the Mammut Delta X collection at the OutDoor Friedrichshafen trade fair this year (2018) – and a Chinese tea ceremony set from Kingpool – provided a nice case of ways we are not “at home in…” this world of fashion and tradition.
The LGT Alpine Marathon in Liechtenstein only came to my notice by chance.
It fit my aim to ‘adventure’ and #GetAtHome in the Alps by way of #microexploration perfectly, though.
In a sea of new products at the 2017 edition of the OutDoor Friedrichshafen sports fair, it was the Naglev Unico shoes that somehow stuck out for me.
The Bliz Velo XT sunglasses turned out to be good for all my sports activities.
Only a bit “un”good for their marketing.
“So, does it warrant the ‘Skyrace’ label?” Thomas Bosnjak, the race director, asked me about the Hochkönigman Skyrace. With a grin.
I had, just having finished, had to complain how hard it had been…
The fortress of Hohensalzburg towers above Salzburg; the museums on and around the adjacent Mönchsberg give it even more cultural cachet and obvious Alpine character…
And yet, when you measure it in your own steps, you really get to know a place, and it turns out differently from how you may have thought it was.
