austria Archives - Robin Dance

The Incredible, Beautiful, Redemptive Birthday Miracle

by Robin | Apr 24, 2014 | Memoir, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Women

I can’t help but be thankful and marvel at the difference a year makes. I woke up on New Year’s Day 2013 with the weight of What Was To Come handcuffing me to my bed: my fiftieth birthday. I hardly felt like the girl who stretches...

A visit to the Austrian Alps (and no wonder Julie Andrews burst into song!)

by Robin | Mar 23, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Europe, Travel, Winter

Angry splotches of purple with irregular, banana-esque edge, my three week-old bruises confirm what I hate to admit: snow skiing ain't my thing. But it's how my husband wanted to celebrate his birthday, so off to the Austrian Alps we went. ...

An Austrian wander…

by Robin | Mar 4, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Memoir, Personal, Travel

I’m in Austria. I’m in Austria drinking a Franziskaner Weissbier and people-watching on the deck of an Apres-Ski. Vanilla-iced mountains and mounds are dazzling fortress, shielding me from the real world; my real world, anyway. I’m writing a...