Category Archives: sport

The Games (And Being Off Mine)

Posted on 14/01/2012 by

The 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games are being held right now in Innsbruck and nearby Seefeld. This would probably be a great opportunity to blog — if I were seeing any of it firsthand. A bad cold has made it … Continue reading →

Posted in current events, health, Innsbruck, singing, sport

What Katha Pollitt Said

Posted on 20/11/2011 by

The unhealthy importance of team sports in America’s university system: “In no other country’s university system, after all, does sports play anything like the central role it does in American academic life. Men do not go to Oxford to play … Continue reading →

Posted in America, culture, current events, Innsbruck, sport | 2 Comments

Pagans In Tirol: Schalenstein

Posted on 24/10/2011 by

My best blogposts lately have been inspired (stolen) from others’ efforts, and this one will be no exception. Earlier this month fellow blogger Paschberg went exploring on the newer trails carved out by the mountainbikers, and came across a rock … Continue reading →

Posted in Austria, culture, Innsbruck, Mountains, nature, sport | 2 Comments

Pagans In Bavaria: Viereckschanzen in Holzhausen

Posted on 29/09/2011 by

Along with the Sunderburg and the pre-Christian grave mounds hidden here and there, the area immediately north of the Ammersee also contains two fairly well-preserved Celtic Viereckschanzen, rectangular earthen enclosures, called Holzhausen 1 and 2. Their function is disputed among … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, Germany, history, memory, nature, sport | 1 Comment

Weekend Mountain Blogging: Voralpenland

Posted on 28/08/2011 by

A first bicycle ride through the Five-Lakes-Region, to get an idea of the lay of the land. The roads are all good but hilly, and some have heavier traffic that you’d expect for a country lane (well, everyone was out … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, Mountains, sport, travel | 3 Comments