Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Showdown - Now and Then

First there was MJ vs The Bird



Then there was King James vs Howard

Graduation Trip 2 Prague w/ Chris

Quit a long time ago, Christoph and me were graduated with almost all our family attending the ceremony. On the next day, it was just the two of us who departed by train to Prague. On the last chance we booked a cheap hotel and jumped on the train with 2 Six-Pack's. After the long trip with a broken train and a very hot Czech train we finally arrived in the Capitol of Czech Republic.

With our hotel we were really lucky, because due to overbooking we got moved to a different but better one - At the Three Storcks.

We did some sightseeing with a lot of warm-soup-with-beer-breaks because of very chilly weather. In the evenings we headed out for some more beers paired with good Czech food and after that some partying.



One evening in Prague: First you go to U Fleku for a traditional beer and food. Then you go to Blue Light Bar for a mood starting drink, where you can get a cocktail for 5€. After that you can head to Chapeau Rouge for another drink, where there are already dancing and people are in good mood. Don't go to the clubs where not much going on and it is expensive and people are unfriendly too! For the hangover I can recommend Café Savoy, where you find besides to coffee and cakes also other great food!



Of all the spectacular monuments and buildings I don't have to remember, because you can read it in guide better. Charles bridge is very great and the old city is also very great, because as almost the whole city everything is very clean!



Of course on a graduation trip we really don't care about watching old things! ;-)

cheers

Bali with Schnucki

Actually it should only be an insane 8 days trip! Why insane? Because you if you leave Oberwart at 2pm CET and you arrive on the next day at 3pm CET at your destination you are really insane to travel so far for this short time period. But still we thought to have a very intense time! A lot of surfing, relaxing, shopping and eating without sightseeing at all.

Now we did find a nice accommodation - Ramayana Resort & Spa - and the beach was also not far away. So a perfect fit for us!

Kuta beach where is the right place to learn Nadine surfing, is really the dirtiest beach we ever saw, but the waves where really constantly coming and really good! So we had fun for few days and few hours until it started to rain on Sunday evening, which first didn't matter because we were supposed to leave on Monday evening anyway! But then we got informed at the check-in that your flight was canceled because Denpasar didn't had the information that Vienna airport is operating again. It came 1h too late. So as all flights to Vienna from Doha where booked out the gave as next flight on Monday, 26th. Exactly one week later, which makes as a 2 weeks vacation, which is a perfect fit for such destination. ;-)

Now we booked a different hotel, which we almost decided to book for the first week, but then choose different. Dekuta Hotel is a brand new hotel, which is even closer to the beach and to the city, but without Balinese atmosphere and style .

2nd week started completely different, because when the first week was almost without rain, the second starting with 3 days of raining all day. Locals told us, that raining season got delayed by the global heating,which sounds rather confusing for me?!

On Thursday was the first day we could go to the beach again due to a sunny sky without any clouds. So we decided to visit again (after Sunday) the most beautiful beach in south Bali - Geger Beach.

Rest of the week was pretty much the same!

Pics will follow...

Great trip with enough time thx to vulcano!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Graduation

On 16th of February I had finished my study in Business Administration. Almost one month later I had my graduation in the ceremony hall of the WU Wien, where the whole family, except the Italian branch and grandma Susi, came to support me! It was great to have the ceremony with Christoph, who is one of my best colleagues and also my flatmate. Usually, you finish different to other colleagues because of different starting or rhythm or working. So it was really great to celebrate with his family before the graduation!



After the one hour ceremony we had some champagne. Then we drove to Oberschützen, where we had dinner at Mostschank Unger, where food is always very good! Actually it is too good, because everybody eats so much, that you cannot move anymore.

At this time I want to say thank you again to all of them for coming, celebrating with me and of course the very generous presents they made!

So from now on it is Mag. Leitner, which sounds very strange, because I always thought as male Leitner you have to get it in your thirty's, but okay, why not earlier! ;-)

best regards,

Hannes