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It’s Friday, and yet again, the wonderful otmar!
I’ve still got lots to work through and next week I’ll post some brilliant pics from Le Comte, Bill, and the rest from JR. It’s going to be a good week, just in time to help push through these deep winter times!
Where it was taken: Laa an der Thaya
When: 2018/01/02
Commenter screenname: otmar
Other notes or info about the picture:
After spending Christmas with both grandmas and hosting relatives until the 28th, I’m now on a short holiday with wife and both kids at the spa in Laa. The building in the picture is city hall, which was built during the Austria/Hungary empire days. Laa is straight up north to the Czech border from Vienna. This used to be the iron curtain, so for 55 years this town was almost cut off from the neighbours to the north. This was certainly not helpful for the economy, and so the villages here offer a glance back into the past.
These days the border is open, Austria and the Czech Republic are both members of the Schengen treaty, thus there is minimal friction passing over these days.
This shows: the signs in the spa are tri-lingual: German, English and Czech, and some of the staff here sport the typical Czech dialect of German.
Three letters folks – WOW!
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Quinerly
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Great day in Hobbs, NM. Highly recommend the Cattle Baron Steak House. House sangria loaded with whole strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Don’t eat a lot of red meat anymore so the rare prime rib was a treat. Huge salad bar. Less than 100 miles to Carlsbad Caverns. We pull out of here in a few hours. Have a great day and a wonderful weekend! Thanks again, Alain for this AM feature!
JPL
Wow is right!
@Quinerly: Any news from Ozark? The Cattle Baron Steak House sounds great!
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
You’ve made good time! Was Poco navigating? That sangria with fresh berries sounds wonderful. Hope your travels continue fine.
Quinerly
@JPL: @SiubhanDuinne: No news re Ozark. I messaged our mutual friend again last night. She knew nothing. I don’t think Ozark has a smarty pants phone (pretty sure he had a flip phone when he met my group in St. Louis for breakfast and the march). Hopefully, no news is good news. As for the Cattle Baron…looks to be a small local chain. One in Ruidoso also. I was there for a long lunch?. $12.50 for that hunk of prime rib with loaded potato…sweet waitress didn’t charge me for the salad bar. She got a healthy tip.? The two lane drive through that part of Texas wore me out and I guess I looked the part. Poco slept the entire way except for some peeing and stretching with a strong pee on “Idalou.” Technically, we were in Idalou.? Thanks for the interest. If I hear anything from my St. Louis peeps re Ozark, I’ll post it.
Elizabelle
@Quinerly: Your trip is off to a strong start.
And best to Ozark Hillbilly and son, wherever they be.
Steeplejack
I went back and found OzarkHillbilly’s comments about his son’s accident from the Wednesday morning open thread. Reposting them because people have been asking about what happened. This is all that we have heard so far. Last night Adam Silverman said that he had sent an e-mail to OzarkHillbilly’s address and would update us if he gets any news.
Wednesday morning at 7:42 EST:
Update at 8:42 a.m. EST:
Amir Khalid
I looked up the Therme Laa’s booking.com listing. It looks like a great place for a holiday.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
Gorgeous photo! @Steeplejack: Steep, thanks for the Ozark news. @Quinerly: Quinerly, I hope you and Poco continue to have lovely travels in NM. I’m sure I speak for all of us when I thank you for any news you can share from your mutual friend of OH. @Amir Khalid: I hope you and the girl are having a dandy time. Some of the stuff you’ve mentioned is hard!
Amir Khalid
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
Thanks. The encouragement is always appreciated. Now that you mention it, an actual guitar teacher would probably tell me that trying to take on a Jimmy Page guitar part so early is foolhardy. But if it were no challenge it wouldn’t be much fun, now would it?
rikyrah
That was beautiful
satby
Otmar, great photo! You make me want to see parts of Europe I never heard of before.
@Amir Khalid: you’re having fun and that’s all that matters!
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Wonder why it’s called a “silent spa.”
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
It does seem like a place for a restful holiday, rather than hitting the clubs and going shopping.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: But if I am taking the waters, may I converse with my companion?
otmar
@Amir Khalid: Yes, it is. We spent three very relaxing days there.
otmar
@Gin & Tonic: the silent spa is the area where kids are not allowed.
Similar to the Schaffelbad in Loipersdorf.