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EH? Have you ever asked what that

 His Aedibus Adhaeret Concors Populorum Amor 

meant on top of Hofburg? Still curious? Here’s the translation:

In this building I reconciled the love of the nations (peoples)

PS: it has taken me a while to find the transaltion myself and my Latin knowledge from HS didn’t help much (to my shame)

Apparently yes…I was working this AM and , stupid me, started to browse the channels when I took a break. And ended up on a Romanian one which featured…Vienna…ahhh I saw the places we just visited cpl of days ago and missed Vienna already…awww nothing can beat the days spent in a new city, exploring everything and by day  4 feeling like you sort of know the places near-by.

What can I say? Cannot wait for the next vacay which probably will be around May next year. My plan is to visit Greece between Orthodox Easter (which is in mid April) and the start of the season.

With my husband, Ady; Schonbrunn Palace in Back.

sadly we are leaving today....somehow I am not convinced I want to leave or want to get back home. Although my work has already been behind b4 I left. So probably I am doing myself a favor to actually go ... [Continue reading this entry]

We have already been here since Sunday Aug 17 but today is the first day I actually found the time to stay and write a blog entry. Sun was a bit weird because pretty much everything was closed but we did ... [Continue reading this entry]

I'm missing the annual "Arad's Days" (Zilele Aradului, Ro). What will be up? Concerts, events, parades...among the singers: Nicu Alifantis (on 18), Viennese music (how ironic is that?! I'm going to Vienna! lol), traditional Romanian music (yuck!), AMADEUS, ANALIA SELIS, SIMPLU, ... [Continue reading this entry]

I know, I should be sleeping...well, I cannot. Backpack is packed, I only have to add the toothbrushes and the toothpaste plus our perfumes. I pissed b/c my fav Adidas t-shirt i got last year from Bucharest has a stain ... [Continue reading this entry]

Yup, I packed the backpack for me and hubby. Decided to buy the toiletries in Austria so we'll only be taking clothes and some medications (including my BCP and anti-allergy pill). I still believe I packed too many clothes -- ... [Continue reading this entry]

Yup, we finally bought our travel insurance for Vienna; 7 days and 22 RON (US$9.2). I always buy travel insurance when I leave the country although so far - knock on wood - I haven't used it.

Yesterday (Aug 12) we decided to come back home...the drive from Calarasi to Bucharest was really really nice: 1h 30 min and not even on the highway (A2) ...so we were HAPPY! But it all changed ...it took us 1h 30 ... [Continue reading this entry]