This Wednesday night Sandra and Flo arrived in Vienna for a long weekend hitting the high street for Christmas shopping, visits to Christmas markets and the blast round of intense practise for one of the most demanding events of the year: the big eating on Christmas starting on the evening of the 24th and ending on the evening of the 26th with a series of big breakfasts, long lunches followed by coffee and cakes or cookies and concluded with dinner. As 27 and 28 are Saturday and Sunday we do have the suspicion to prolong the festive season by two days. While turkeys and gooses are fed prior to the holidays we suffer that fate on the holidays.
As Markus only arrived back from London on Friday night he missed out the Spittelberger Christmas market and Italian dinner on Thursday and also could not enjoy the delicious Indian dinner on Friday night at Rani, in our opinion the best Indian restaurant in Vienna. Unfortunately Indian cuisine is so fulfilling that the Sandra, Flo and Kerstin were completely destroyed afterwards and so Markus found the three lying in bed together on their backs not able to move. Just like three bugs.
Saturday we all slept really long, went for a walk in the prate early afternoon before Markus cooked, on demand by Sandra, his speciality Thai curry which none of us can get enough. Dinner that early was necessary as we me met up with Flo's brother and a couple of other of his relatives at the Christmas market in Schoenbrunn for some mulled wine and punch. We definitely had less of those sweet and dangerous drinks than the three guys we shared a bar table with. After a while we witnessed what impact the drinks can have. First one of the three guys started to wrestle with the table (it was a close match, but after all he won and managed to overturn it) but clearly the fight took too much energy as the fell over a few times and suddenly has disappeared. After a while the second one had to give in to the (knock-out) punch and was taken to hospital as he tripped (we are not sure over what exactly he tripped) and pulled the brake. Unfortunately for him gravel and his cheek did not cooperate so ideally. On our way home we met the first guy again - he was sitting on a bench on the way to the tube station and is seemed he was "thinking" about where he should go.
As Markus only arrived back from London on Friday night he missed out the Spittelberger Christmas market and Italian dinner on Thursday and also could not enjoy the delicious Indian dinner on Friday night at Rani, in our opinion the best Indian restaurant in Vienna. Unfortunately Indian cuisine is so fulfilling that the Sandra, Flo and Kerstin were completely destroyed afterwards and so Markus found the three lying in bed together on their backs not able to move. Just like three bugs.
Saturday we all slept really long, went for a walk in the prate early afternoon before Markus cooked, on demand by Sandra, his speciality Thai curry which none of us can get enough. Dinner that early was necessary as we me met up with Flo's brother and a couple of other of his relatives at the Christmas market in Schoenbrunn for some mulled wine and punch. We definitely had less of those sweet and dangerous drinks than the three guys we shared a bar table with. After a while we witnessed what impact the drinks can have. First one of the three guys started to wrestle with the table (it was a close match, but after all he won and managed to overturn it) but clearly the fight took too much energy as the fell over a few times and suddenly has disappeared. After a while the second one had to give in to the (knock-out) punch and was taken to hospital as he tripped (we are not sure over what exactly he tripped) and pulled the brake. Unfortunately for him gravel and his cheek did not cooperate so ideally. On our way home we met the first guy again - he was sitting on a bench on the way to the tube station and is seemed he was "thinking" about where he should go.
The setting for a christmas can't be better than here in the imperial garden
Today morning we more kept breakfast rather short as we have planned Mexican food for lunch before Sandra, Flo and his brother Philip got on their way back to Bregenz. The tortillas were excellent, but are clearly not the ideal food for lunch as we now feel really tired! Overall the training session for Christmas was success- and eventful and we can’t wait to have the Christmas holidays starting.
Kerstin & Markus
Kerstin & Markus
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