the final stretch

I have one more week of classes here, and then I'm off to travel the globe. I'm starting in London, then going to Dublin. Journey number two starts in Athens with some days spent in Santorini. After that, I'm not sure what's happening, but I know I'll be going to Linz and Mauthausen with some Austrian friends of mine, and we should also go on a snowboarding trip.

Today my art class had an excursion to Schloss Leopoldskron, the palace that is the back of The Sound of Music house. It was really nice to see inside because the palace is private property, and there are no tours given.

Here are some photos:

From the fence at Schloss Leopoldskron

We had a special guest last week from the U.S. Flat Stanley came to visit and we went snowshoeing



Another Sound of Music moment, the Felsenreitschule in the Festspiel Haus

Overlooking Graz

An ice sculpture in Graz



The Bicaz dam in Romania


Stefan the Greatest's tower in Piatra-Neamt, Romania


Last, but not least, is the link to column 15: A Romanian Christmas and an Austrian New Year