Early celebrations
Life is a walk in the park at the moment. The weather is still wonderful – sunny and quite mild – so it is hard to believe that this pond will soon be frozen over and used as a skating rink and for Eistockschießen. Translated as ‘ice stock sport’, this is somewhat similar to curling and is played mainly in Austria, Germany and Südtirol in Italy. I don’t really get it, but the locals go mad for it. They love…