The seminar up shit creek

I attended the R&D seminar from my work we had up shit creek today. The hotel was very good though. It was a big hotel. I don't understand why there is such a big hotel up shit creek. It was organised well I have to say. Cookies and choccies, tea and coffee and water and soft drinks for grabs. Lunch was a very good buffet. I'll gladly have our next R&D day here!

The first presentation hitting off.

The view. Welcome to Shit creek.

During the lunch break we received the most important bits of equipment for our upcoming ski-trip to Austria. The most important ones being these wristbands which mean: Free booze in your hotel till 23:00. And also other drinks and cake etc etc ;-)

This was the other important item: The skiing jacket. yeah, it's orange this year. Zell am see is going to be VERY orange in 1 week...

The parking space.

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Playing a game of Wordfeud with Margot whom I know from the pub. It's getting a bit too cosy for comfort on one side of the board...

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While waiting for the bus to take me to the client below Rotterdam today I spotted this ad. Somebody isn't paying their graphic designers enough money to close the parking space between her front teeth...
I'm sure she's all lovely and everything but all I can see is the gap!

Amsterdam Central Station.

Yes!

Do not feed the monkey.

Feeding time!

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Arrival in Amsterdam. I can't see anything yellow for a while I think...

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Our neighbours have started taking care of a measle-ship.

The food-fairy had made me a batch of Dahl (also knows as dhal or daal) which I turned in to three lunches. Thank you food-fairy! :-)

The exodus

I thought I'd go see what's going on in Kaprun on the second day of Easter. So I took the bus.

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There was this pretty little church...

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Apart from that there were InterSport stores on every corner that were open and EVERYTHING else was closed. It was DEAD. I had to wait 30 minutes for my bus too...

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In the afternoon we checked out of our very nice hotel. We had great service, great food and very nice rooms. It was all good in hotel Tirolerhof.

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And then there was the yellow exodus. The people of Zell am See can take off their sun glasses again.

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We waited for our train at the station.

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Three colleagues and a friend of theirs. They were just a liiiittle bit tired ;-P

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My colleague Alex and his lovely wife. I missed the opportunity to say bye so if you read this: It was nice meeting you! :-)

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And then it got busy. We fit 7 people in our 5 person cabin for some poker. Sylvester was showing off his old-style "Happy hardcore" moves. (To get him to do this, make sure he's tired and tipsy!)

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Poker. (Mom - the money is just for decoration!)

The Zeller see walk.

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Todays activity was an 11Km walk around the Zeller see.

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The water is crystal clear.

I went with my colleague Kim, her boyfriend and another fun colleague who's name I just can't remember (sorry!)

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Again, awesome views.

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Boats. During the summer there must be a thousand of these little boats.

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The town of Kaprun lies behind that mountain. It's about 3000 metres high.

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Zell am See from the other side of the lake.

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We had lunch in the sun. It was warm and spirits were high :-)

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Duckies came to say hello.

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When I got back to the hotel I had a shower and a nap. Before lunch I had a beer with a few colleagues.

An afternoon in Salzburg

No skiing for me today. I rather discover new places. So I decided to go catch a train to Salzburg. But I was a little late so I had 40 minutes to enjoy the morning sun and a coffee with cake in town :-)

There was a small market in the centre of Zell am See.

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The views from the train were often beautiful.

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I made it to Salzburg fine and walked to the old city. I came across a nice little park.



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I sat down at this fountain a bit. Just like I used to do at the fountain on Victoria square in Adelaide.

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My guide for the day.

Salzburg is known because Mozart was born there. But in this house another famous person was born...

... Doppler.

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I walked over a bridge to get to the other side of the old town.

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View towards the city from the bridge. Up at the top is the famous castle but it was so busy I didn't wanna go in.

The street where little Mozart walked.

And there it is, Mozarts birth-house. It is... yellow. And there are hordes of tourists swarming around...

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Cathedral.

People playing chess like at the Max Euweplein in Amsterdam.

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This house looked old but the painting was well maintained.

Plenty of beefaroni in this town.

And then it was time to go home again.