Another weekend, another trip!

So with another 4 day weekend, me and my friend Helena from uni back in Cardiff decided to go on a little 'eurotrip'!

She arrived to Austria from the Uk on the thursday, and by friday we were already in our first destination.. Udine in northern Italy!

Enjoying some more delicious italian food...

Udine is situated just some 2 hours from Klagenfurt by coach, so we enjoyed a great day out, wandering around for the day...


New day, new country! By saturday it was time to say ciao to Italy, Aufwiedersehen to Austria and
dobrodošli to Slovenia!

Slovenia is just an hour away from Klagenfurt


Helena has a friend who lives in Ljubljana, so we stayed with her for two days... On saturday we explored the old slavic capital...

View from top of castle...

Shoes.. next to the 'Shoemakers Bridge'...

This is called a moving cake - a slovenian delicacy consisting of layers of pastry, apple, poppy seeds, walnuts and cream cheese.. needless to say it wasn't the nicest thing I have ever eaten!!


On sunday, we took a trip to the beautiful Lake Bled

View as we tripped...

The famous Lake Bled

Jasna, Me, Helena enjoying the spectacular views at Lake Bled...

After a lovely weekend tripping, we managed to squeeze in some time in my home city of Klagenfurt, paying a visit to 'Minimundus', a theme park where you can find some of the worlds most famous landmarks... just on a tiny scale!

Hollywood or Klagenfurt?!

Summer seems like it has finally well and truly arrived here in Austria. It feels so strange to think just 3 months ago I arrived here to temperatures of -10 degrees and snow up to my waist! I'm definitely going to make the most of this beautiful weather before it's time to say Aufwiedersehen once again... but this time, it will be for good!

Mai - der Monat der Feiertage

So here we are in may, just 2 weeks to go til the end of my placement here in Austria and it really does seem to be the month of school holidays, with almost every weekend in may being 4 days long! The first of these holidays to celebrate the traditional may day was spent with my boyfriend. He flew out here on the tuesday, and from there we spent 2 days in Venice, 2 days in Vienna before spending some days in Klagenfurt before he jetted back!

First we spent some time in Venice, where the weather was beautiful and the food was even better!! I suppose it goes without saying but the pasta was incredible! 

Venice is only 3 hrs by bus from Klagenfurt.. 

Then come friday we found ourselves in the austrian capital - Vienna!

a bike tour around the city was a great way to see all the sights... in speedy time!

Enjoying a famous curry wurst from a street stall...

Vienna is home to beautiful buildings, mozart, art, history, opera ... all in all a very luxurious city!

I feel very privileged to have been able to travel so much whilst in Spain and now being able to see so much of this part of Europe.. I can't believe my time is almost over but I will sure be making the most of my last few weeks here!

Bis bald!

A Weekend in the Wald

Last weekend, I went to stay with my friend Sophie (there's just so many of us!!) who is doing the same english teacher assistantship like me but in a small farming village called Bezau in the north west of Austria

Klagenfurt is right down in the south of Austria, my friend lives as far west as you can get! (She borders with Switzerland and Liechtenstein) The trip to see her took a good 8 hours, with a stop in Salzburg in the north of Austria and a quick trip through Germany too! But it was well worth the effort, as it was lovely to catch up with a good friend, and see a bit more of what Austria has to offer!

Bezau is a farming village, with a population of 1 thousand people, so we were never going to have a busy weekend. Nevertheless we enjoyed lovely bike rides through the Wald (forest) and even helped out milking cows on the farm my friend is staying at!!

 A really different weekend, but great fun and an experience I'll never forget!

Taking the fresh milk to the Sennerei to be made into cheese!

Enjoying a well earned home-made schnapps with the farmers after our hard grafting!!