Mutti's recipe: Austrian Tray Fruit Cake

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A plum and apricot ready to go

I grew up with all sorts of variations of this delicious cake and nowadays I tend to make it myself regularly – especially when we have guests, who often end up asking for the recipe. I like it best hot and fresh out of the oven with a cold glass of milk, but of course you can enjoy it with a cup of tea or coffee after it cooled down as well. So here you go …

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New Gallery: Canada’s wild animals.

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We have been here in Victoria for a bit more than two months now and we have seen many animals here we never saw before. Check out some of them in the new gallery, stay tuned for more additions and read on to find out what we already saw, but couldn’t get a photo yet…

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Goldstream Park

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Yen at the start of the track ...where next?

Very near Victoria along the highway up island is a small gem of a park worth a visit. We went there a few weeks ago and hiked all the way through from the south up to the estuary of the Goldstream river and back along the hill side.

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Our new home – Victoria

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It has been an adventurous time for Yen and myself recently. After leaving Melbourne, Australia and visiting my hometown Salzburg in Austria to visit my family and friends and some fun time there, we have now been here in Canada for nearly two months and experienced a lot already…

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Tour d’Italy

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Everything began on a typical thursday at 5 something in the morning ... Babsi picked me up and I started to drive south while Babsi enjoying one of those relaxing…

Low-water Soca results in highwater Isel

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Another public holiday - another trip. This time Babsi, Thomas, Michi and I headed south. At the Soca we met Nadine, Ben, Andrew and Christoph and we paddled the Soca…

CUBlunt

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Winter is over - the local wave is gone. But the new video CUBlunt is ready. It's again produced by werner, the sound is GutenTag(Reklamation) by WirSindHelden and I hope…

Osttirol

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While some people "enjoyed" the T3 trash in Graz, we headed south. Gabi, Thomas, Michi and I drove down to Osttirol and paddled the Drau (sadly low water) and the…

The past and the future of artifical playspots

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tube6You are interessted in an artifical playspot for surfing and paddling? Not one of those shitty holes – no. An amazing wave for all those cool tricks you want to be able to perform… just read more :)
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Spirit.Reloaded

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SpiritMatrix meets Spirit (the mascot of the company I work for) – that was the idea for the title picture of the latest newsletter and so I kickstarted poser and photoshop …
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New Gallery – Natura in Europe

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Thx to my new digital camera (a Casio QV5700) I started to photoshooting again. Hope you like the pictures. The first nested gallery shows some flowers and animals around Salzburg…

Manfred and Yen in Salzburg

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After 3 years living in Australia, Manfred and Yen finally mastered it to come to Austria (on their way to Canada). During their three weeks in europe they had a lot of things to do and the weather gave us all options from snowfall to 25° ….

So what did we do while they were here. Well, read on for some highlights …
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Tricks for river boogieboarding

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You have no sea – you like boogieboarding – you got a playhole or a surfwave on a river -> go for it!!! Riversurfing is really great fun and supereasy.

This article gives you some basic tips for riverboogie’ing and a lot of how-to’s for the manoveurs we are able to do. Hope you enjoy it!
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