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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  January 4, 20195:00 am| 8 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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Good Morning All,

On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

 

It’s the first Friday of a new year, and we have otmar – hooray!

Enjoy the day. have a great weekend, and  enjoy the pictures!

 

 

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter otmar.

I’ve been negligent in posting updates from Europe. To atone, here are some christmassy (is that a word?) pictures from the last weeks.

Taken on 2018-12-17 00:00:00

A business trip brought me to Linz a few days later. This is an impression from the Landstraße with a view of the Ursulinen church.

Taken on 2018-12-16 00:00:00

Back in Vienna, we took the kids for a visit to the Christmas market in front of the Karlskirche.

Taken on 2018-12-14 00:00:00

There is a huge Christmas market at the cathedral. It it usually full of tourists and hard to pass through. So I just snapped this picture from the outside.

Taken on 2018-12-14 00:00:00

Salzburg

We had our company Christmas dinner in Salzburg this year (we’re split between Salzburg and Vienna), this is from my walk towards the venue.

The picture shows the Kajetanerkirche, it was built around 1690 and is currently part of a hospital (run by the order of the “Barmherzige Brüder”).

See also https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajetanerkirche

 

Thank you so much otmar, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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8Comments

  1. 1.

    otmar

    January 4, 2019 at 5:03 am

    The picture ordering is still b0rked.

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    January 4, 2019 at 5:53 am

    @otmar: It’s kind of fun to try to figure out which caption goes with which picture. Is that real snow under the trees for sale or fake? Love all the old buildings preserved. Here in California we haven’t been good at that, though the earthquakes don’t help.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    January 4, 2019 at 6:27 am

    Otmar, The picture of the Kajetanerkirche is beautiful.

  4. 4.

    otmar

    January 4, 2019 at 6:29 am

    The [email protected]Mary G: the captions are over the correct pictures. The intended order is 4,3,2,1.

    And the snow is for real.

  5. 5.

    arrieve

    January 4, 2019 at 8:29 am

    I’ve always wanted to do one of those tours of the Christmas markets. Beautiful pictures.

  6. 6.

    susanna

    January 4, 2019 at 10:16 am

    Great pictures of lovely old buildings. I shopped at the Vienna Christmas market back in ’68 whilst thumbing my way from one town to another. These recovered dusty memories, thank you.

  7. 7.

    stinger

    January 4, 2019 at 11:13 am

    Lovely images, lovely memories for you and your family, I’ll bet.

  8. 8.

    J R in WV

    January 4, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    Wonderful photos, doesn’t matter that their backwards to most of us…

    Thanks so much!!!

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