Plans for the rest of summer 07

Hey everybody!

Sorry, still didn't find the time to write about my trip to Pakistan. Romain posted quite a bit on his blog, so if you know French check it out.

So what did I do since I came back? Well, I spent a couple of days in Grenoble, climbed a bit. Threw all my stuff into my car and moved to Salzburg, Austria. Threw all my stuff into my parents house (they were very delighted to see so many bags and shit lying around everywhere). Spent some time with my family, which I haven't seen in a long time. Climbed a bit in Salzburg.
Threw all my stuff in the car moved it to Innsbruck, where I could move into my old apartment - so lucky, that made things so much easier. Climbed a bit in Innsbruck.
Went back to Salzburg, had to give away my car, because it didn't pass the technical inspection. Too rusty - repairing it would be too expensive. Apparently nobody wants to buy it in Austria, so it's probably going to be sold to russia.
Got a new car !! (well, :-P new to me) Big up for my parents for helping me out :D
Went to Arco, Lago di Garda, Italy to meet Erik the Viking and Petra Catalina. (By the way thanks to the Belgian for recommending me the Monty Python movie. Good one! How did your marriage go? Best wishes to you three!). Climbed a bit in Arco. Got to know Stefano and Alberto, two nice guys from Arco, climbed with them.
Next stop was Graz, where I climbed with Judith, Georg and Natti.
Now I'm back in Innsbruck, preparing my trip to France and Spain. Going to go to Céüze tomorrow, then Nice and around southern France.
On 18 September I'll be in Rodellar, Spain - climbing with Willy, Dani and probably some more Spaniards.
End of September I gotta go back to Innsbruck. That leaves me about 5 weeks of traveling around and climbing.

I would have loved to go to Norway to climb with Erik the Viking there, but the flights are quite expensive. It's got to be another time.
The Frankenjura with Jana and Ludwig will be postponed to a long weekend in fall, looking forward to it.

Those are my plans for now - if you wonna join me somewhere, give me shout (well maybe calling or mailing is better). If you're somewhere not too far let me know maybe I'll stop by...
Try calling me on my French cell phone first, then the Austrian number, it is more likely that i got the French SIM card in my phone.

Grenoble

I know this is long overdue, but finally I uploaded some *normal* photos. Which means no sport involved. Unbelievable but true.

Bastille Grenoble

Some pictures I took at the Bastille with Basti and Mikka.

View from my Appartment in Grenoble

got internet

Yesterday, I finally got an internet connection in my home after waiting for over a month for the new provider to start working.
Right now I'm waiting for Jordi to pick me up to go to the "Gorges De Verdon"! That's going to be so awsome! I'm going to write some more when I get back, in the meantime you could take a look at the pictures I took last time when I was there.

Victor

Cats

Tenemos un nuevo gato! Se llama Victor, es muy joven, solamente tiene 4 meses. Es muy bonito y totalmente plateado, bueno, hay otros que dicen que es gris... ¿Que piensas tu? Puse más fotos de nuestros gatos en mi webalbum, que monos son! Los primeros días eran horribles por Victor porque Chausette no lo dejaba hacer nada. Claro, hasta que él ha venido, era la reina del apartamento; tiene que mostrarlo. Además Chausette es más grande y más fuerte. Por fin ella ha aceptado que ahora Victor vive aquí también. Ahora están jugando todo el tiempo, tengo miedo que vayan a destruir el apartamento. ;)

Philippe

Je vous presente: Philippe, mon coloc.
This is Philippe, my flatmate here in Grenoble. He is French, works night shifts in a hotel and plans to open a restaurant, which will serve mainly soup, end of this year.
He's a fun guy and he helps me a lot to improve my French. Philippe doesn't really speak any other languages so we have to talk French all the time, which is great, and he really takes the time to explain all the words I don't know yet.

We inhabit a small apartment in the Quartier Saint Bruno, which is not too far from the center. It's a great hood actually: vivid, buildings aren't too tall, lots of parks - just n-i-c-e!


But we're not alone! Let's start with the cat called Chaussette, she got that name, which means sock, because of her paws - they are all white, makes it look like she's wearing socks...
Another cohabitant, Sumo, is a little gerbil, who is quite huge compared to his species average and therefore qualified for the name Sumo. I can hear him right now eating his cage, he does that a lot lately, plastic must be really yummy!
Last and probably least there are some fish in a bowl, which names I'm not going to mention... (because I forget 'em lol)

First slightly interesting post

Grenoble

In July I moved from Innsbruck to Grenoble, where I'll stay till June, maybe even a little longer.
What's the reason for my stay in Grenoble? Well back in Innsbruck I decided to make use of a student exchange program called ERASMUS, because I wanted to live in a foreign country, learn the language, make experience... I looked at the partner universities Innsbruck had to offer and almost settled for Barcelona or Madrid, but then something came to my mind: if I'm going to stay there, how am I going to survive a winter without skiing? I took close look at the other universities and found out that Grenoble is in the French alps. As soon as I got that information, it was decided.
Grenoble is perfect for me, the mountains are so close, just like in Innsbruck, it's funny how important that got to me.
The picture shows Grenoble and was - of course - taking while climbing (at Les Trois Pucelles).
In August I did a French language course at the university, which was called "semi-intensif" which means only 2 hours a day :) (well it was also a lot cheaper than the intensif course). Anyway, I had plenty of time for climbing. Then in September university began, still got enough time for climbing, but what about the rest of my life? Dunno, is there anything else to it?