Visit from home

Back again folks. I want to mention first that in April we will be traveling quite a bit, so the posts might come in blocks, or whenever I have time to write them. Especially around Easter we will be traveling for a few weeks but then I should have soo much to blog about. 

Anyway as I mentioned in my last post that I had my parents visiting me from Oulu, Finland. It is always fun when family or friends have the time and effort to come and visit, it’s nice to get a little check on things back home and to just see family. My parents were here for a couple of days and we got to show the city of Graz to them. Many of the sights are familiar from earlier posts, but we always find some new angles for pictures and new things behind every corner. Also, it gave a reason to go eat out every evening when we didn’t have to pay for everything 😊. They also brought with them some treats from home like candy and chocolate bars. Sorry to say, but those they do better back home in Finland.

Boy with the visiting parents

Whole gang for a group picture

Papa looking happy with the sun

Papa looking happy with the son

 

Some Wienerschnitzel, with a Styrian flare of pumpkin seeds

Of course some apfelstrudel

Some really nice fish

Interesting "snowball desert"

On Saturday we went to the ruins of an old castle in Gösting which is a part of Graz. We passed there when we were heading to the Schwarzenegger museum in February and it seemed interesting, so we kept it in mind. Since the weather was nice on that weekend, we decided to take the hike up to the castle ruins. The old fort was set up in the middle ages but left in ruins after a “lightning bolt” hit the ammunition storage some time in the 1800s, or something. There wasn’t too much info on the history of the place, but that is as much as I remember from the little that was stated there. I’ve heard that lightning bolt story before. Back home in Oulu it’s the same story told about how our castle was destroyed, when it was bombed to the ground by the Brits or something. Nevertheless, the Gösting castle is mostly in ruins nowadays, but the views are great. There was a small café at the top to get some refreshments after climbing close to an hour. From there we just enjoyed the sun and made a small detour to check an old chapel dedicated to victims of cholera. The view from the mountain was great, especially towards Graz, where the Schlossberg looked so small. It is really starting to turn into spring here. We’ll see how green it is in the next post. Also thank you for visiting, mom and dad.

Sunny day for climbing

Gösting castle during the climb

View of Graz

Time for a beer in the sun