Swabian Christmas cookies

Check out the new issue of "Servus in Stadt und Land Bayern" (12/2012, www.servusmagazin.de), Mrs. Breumairs homemade cookies and biscuits are really delicious! And if you want to buy some: look around or ask in Affing, a little village near Augsburg, she sells her traditional collection of Christmas sweets in her farmshop...

Vienna and Melk...

It´s been a long time since I posted something on this blog. Yesterday I came back from a kind of research trip to Vienna and some other places in Upper Austria, including visits to the headquarters of the UN organisations, to Kaisermühlen (public housing areas, built in the Twenties and Thirties of the 20th century in Vienna) and to some villages by the Danube near the city of Melk. This has to be reason enough to show some photographs from the last five days...