North and South

The first wave of winter with temperatures of close to 0 degrees even during the day, cold wind and first snow in areas of 400m sea level or higher is over and we are facing more normal weather conditions these days for mid-October. With Jakob’s second tooth having broken through at the beginning of the week him bein very unsettled and suffering from teething pain hopefully is over and therefore also our nights are might be coming back to some normality. Obviously there are more teeth to come, but for now we see no need for a rush.

On Tuesday Kerstin and Jakob drove south to Oberwart to spend two days with the grandparents as Markus was on his way up north to Stockholm for a conference on Wednesday. In the evening he followed the invitation of one of his Swedish clients to join them for the Oktoberfest, a big party where they served Wiesnbier, also available at the famous Munich Oktoberfest, as well as Bratwurst and Sauerkraut. This event has become pretty much traditional by now, is “by invitation only” and therefore something very special. Due to the turbulences in the financial industry last year the event has been cancelled and so this year it seemed as if both the clients as well as the brokers were hungry for the party as more than 400 people filled up the place and thus genuine Oktoberfest vibes developed: It was hot, one could hardly move and the Maß-Bier had to be drunk fast if you did not want it warm.

Jakob and Kerstin in the meantime spent a lot of time enjoying the autumn weather with lengthy walks, did some shopping for the little one – we need to stack up Jakob’s supply of warm clothes – and had the car in the garage in order to put the winter tyres on. While the grandparents still enjoyed the presence of the youngest family member still on Thursday, Markus had an early start to catch his flight back to Vienna at 0705 but ended up waiting more than 1 hour for his departure due to heavy fog in Vienna. Clearly he wished to spend his time in bed rather than sitting on a plane waiting for take off, but then one can also sleep while sitting.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus