Last International Coffee in 2011
Tomorrow, November 24 we will meet for the last coffee Morning this year. I would like to take this opportunity to evaluate the international coffee meetings in the past 5 and a half years and eventually discuss in wich form we will go on the next year.
Hotel zur Linde , Bahnstraße 49,2130 Mistelbach an der Zaya (10:00 a.m.), everybody welcome, as always no fee or Membership
The International Festival Charity Bazaar, organized by the United Nations Women´s Guild Vienna will take place on Saturday, 3 December from 10:00 to 17:00 at the Austria Centre Vienna.
I am also very pleased to announce that one of the ladies visiting our coffee : Birgit (Bibi) Rauscher published her first book: “Hexe Linda lernt zaubern”. On one of our walks in the Wine District, Maria Schick showed us the place where this little witch is living in Ladendorf. Linda knows everything about local herbs, plants and trees. A part from the educational level the book is very sweet illustrated by Alexander Nemec. The book is available in the book stores. An official presentation takes place on Saturday December, 3 at 16:00 p.m in Hernals-Vienna. For more info or to have a first impression of the beautiful book click on the website: http://www.hexe-linda.at/
Add comment November 23rd, 2011
Since three years we organize wine district walks in the villages around Mistelbach an der Zaya (Lower Austria). The person who is guiding us is born in the village or is living there. In this way we learn to know new people, discovering hidden places in your neighborhood or listen to little histories of the places you walk trough. There is no fee or membership for this activity, just show up. After the walk you have the possibility to join for lunch. Next walk:
Walking in this time of the year in the wine district reminds me of the BBC series “The last of the summer wine” when I was in my 20ties and still living in Belgium. It was a comedy about old man having their little adventures in the autumn of their years on the romantic english countryside. Receiving the BBC programs in original was a pleasant way to learn english. Sometimes I think that this great opportunity to see and hear everything on television in original may be the big reason the Belgians have this language tick. Today we drove from 
The 3 romantic cellar lanes with their well-tended press houses and cellars accommodate some of the typical regional wines and are open for tastings and shopping possibilities. The ancient rooms of the castle provide for a guest house. We walked on the “Weinwanderweg” (green signs to follow) starting from the 
On coming Friday , October 22 we will pick up our walking activity again!
On this golden October day we drove to the south of Vienna in another Wine District in Lower Austria : The Thermenregion. We took the direction Graz and left the motorway in Wiener Neudorf and drove to Gumpoldskirchen. (It took us about an hour from Mistelbach an der Zaya by car)
