The Good Old Traditions

Hello and a Happy 2017!

Frequent readers, longtime followers might remember that we love to start the new year at the Lainzer Tiergarten.

This year we expanded this tradition and went for a walk yesterday, New Year's Eve AND today.

Well, what a difference 10000000 fireworks make:

"Wien Blick" (Vienna View) yesterday, Dec 31st,  3pm, –before the fireworks: you could see Kahlenberg and Leopoldsberg

Wien Blick Jan. 1st, 2pm. The view is gone. I guess you can say the Wien Blick is not worth it* the day after the fireworks. :-D Now we know ... (*it is a steep hike, up the hill)

Rewarding nature in the shade, touched by a few sun beams during the winter's day

No one halted to capture this magic. I had to. You know me. #whereabouts:Vienna

1 hour before the gates at the Lainzer Tiergarten close, still 3 km ahead of us. You can't just walk by, well, I just can't ...

Right in front of the gates the last photo halt. Funny, what people "need" to throw on ice surfaces. I don't quite get it. Yes, there is the moon.

The gates close at 5pm. By 5 it is already really dark. And there are no lights in the wood. So you better not be late.

Not pictured are the many Viennese people who visited the Lainzer Tiergarten today.

In case you come to Vienna and want to do something hardly any tourist does on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day: come to the Lainzer Tiergarten, you won't regret it! You can get there by public transportation.

Yes, these woods are a part of Vienna. A corner of my hometown I 💓, even in a moody light like today.

all the best!
Paula