Our Fabulous Vienna Stay with Strauss Concert by Vienna Hofburg Orchestra

On Saturday, September 28 of 1996, upon arrival from Budapest at our Wienerwald hotel, we opted for the optional Strauss Concert by the Vienna Hofburg Orchestra.

A photographer took this photo with us in the center with my black La Perla body under Escada suit...

This was the program but it is all in German...

On Sunday morning right after breakfast we were being transported to the center of Vienna, by bus.

Each of us (those that signed up for this optional tour...) received a lunch bag.

It was me, peaking insight of my bag and I started laughing hilarious at the discovery of a banana with blobs of white gooey stuff on it and a STILL HOT BOILED EGG (the culprit of the molten piece of white chocolate...!).

So our tour guide handled very quick after seeing my drawn-out attributes.

Ladies and gentlemen would you please remove the egg out of your bag, because it is still HOT...

What a hilarious morning with lots of laughter.

Turned out they had a new boy in the kitchen; actually his FIRST day and this happened...

With the sun out, Vienna is lovely with all its terraces.

We teamed up that day with four people from the province of Zeeland, The Netherlands.

We laughed a lot!

The individually wrapped sandwich in our lunch bag proved to be very good!

We enjoyed the many terraces and also a tour of the Opera House.

Such fun statues with empty seat so husband Pieter joined them!

An umbrella can be turned into a weapon – IF needed but this statue did not react to my hand...

Traveling with my favorite The Bridge saddlebag purse.

Pause to give our laugh wrinkles a break!

Pausing with a coffee on one of many terraces...

An American from Limburg and a Dutch woman from Zeeland; two Southern Provinces of The Netherlands...

Such a lovely sunny day!

My Burberry umbrella took care of good weather and my Burberry blazer was only partly being used.

Pieter stepped back to give an overview.

Such a lovely Sunny Sunday!

Still got my Escada jeans skirt...

On Monday we went by bus into the city again. 

Me, touching home on a large globe in Prater, Vienna's large Public Park.

On our way home on October 1, lunch with view on the River Danube

From afar...

That's where we had lunch... I'm standing in the center with back towards you.

We stayed for our final night at the Queens hotel in Nürnberg, Germany.

Our final day, October 2nd.

Lunch in Drolshagen, Germany

Lunch, and so ended a wonderful 12–day bus tour from the South of The Netherlands through Germany to Prague  – Budapest – Vienna and back via Germany to Limburg...

Passing through The Netherlands; Germany; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Hungary; Austria; Germany and back into The Netherlands. Of course we flew transatlantic for doing this!

Related links:

My First Trip to Prague with Pieter | previous post by me

My 2nd Trip with Husband Pieter to Budapest in FREE Hungary | post about the Budapest segment

Yerseke Oyster Fishers got Trained by Pieter J.C. Vedder to become Mushroom Growers

Photo by husband Pieter, taken during a break from teaching those Oyster Fishers in Yerseke, province of Zeeland in The Netherlands, with them on one of their boats...

Pieter in 1957, when he became an Assistent at the Dutch Experimental Station.

His specialty was writing Technical Tips for their magazine editions of the Dutch CHAMPIGNONCULTUUR. The above appeared in the 1957-7 edition.

At that time, Pieter did give training in the Western part of the Netherlands, in Yerseke, all the way from Horst, near Venlo and that Interstate was not yet built!

Sometimes rough for making that long trip in the winter time through snow and in the dark...

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This image above, also clearly shows the sea arms of the River Oosterschelde, a former estuary.

The main breadwinning was from mussel, oyster culture and some lobster.

They raised the young oysters on limed roof-tiles and it took about 6 years before they were mature and ready for being harvested!

Those oyster fisher students, could not stand being in-between four walls, so they begged Pieter to join them for a break, out on the open sea where they often scooped up a big oyster and enjoyed it 'fresh'.

In the winter of 1962-1963 a big frost killed nearly 80% of those oyster cultures and many more switched over into mushroom growing.

Later, with the completion of the storm barrier, the famous Delta Works, started soon after the night of January 31 into February 1, 1953 disaster of the North Sea Flood where 2,551 people drowned, the oyster farming nearly stopped. 

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Also in the Standdaarbuiten, adjacent province of Noord Brabant, Pieter did give training, all the way from Horst.

Those were flax growers that were forced out of business by the upcoming cotton industry and synthetic fibers.

Those long distance courses were conducted till on February 9, 1963 the Mushroom Growing Training Centre got officially opened in Horst. Temporarily housed inside the Experimental Station for mushroom culture in Horst. Mr. P. J. C. Vedder is in charge of this entirely new educational establishment for The Netherlands. He is assisted by other teachers.

The vocational school was opened by Ir. W. J. Mulder of the Directorate of Agricultural Education in The Hague.

Related link:

Pieter's Former Student and Mushroom Grower Took us up into the Sky | previous post from Standdaarbuiten where previous flax growers had switched into mushroom growing...

Pieter was Member of the Photo Club and took this Photo at the Liège/Belgium Farmers Market

 With the entire Photo Club, where Pieter for years was an avid member of, they went to Liège in Belgium to the Farmers Market.

This was in the 1970s

An older Belgian gent (look at his cufflinks!) holding his puppy inside a Jaffa oranges crate...

While in the other hand holding a sausage for the puppy to feed on.

With this Photo Club the members got to photograph certain subjects and they had to develop and adjust their photos all by themself. 

Pieter did have his own dark room inside the Dutch Training Centre for Mushroom Growing as he also was an avid photographer for training purposes. 

Slides for use inside the classroom and for lectures at Congresses, Conferences .

Both, in macro and normal.

Pieter also produced the photos for his many books, all himself!

This very photo earned Pieter a 2nd place award at the local Dublin Fine Arts photography exhibit on January 10, 1993