{"id":670,"date":"2010-01-31T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/?p=670"},"modified":"2020-04-15T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T17:16:46","slug":"alles-walzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2010\/01\/31\/alles-walzer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alles Walzer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <div class=\"quer_li alignleft single-image\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2010\/01\/31\/alles-walzer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img256x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/austria\/wien\/thumb\/57.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Ball at the Imperial Palace (Hofburg)\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 2006\/07, I am spending a whole winter at home in Austria (in 2007\/08, I was on <a  href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/south-america\/2008.htm\">holiday in south america<\/a>, and last year, I was on my <a  href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/trips\/rtw2008\/\"><abbr title=\"Round the World\">RTW<\/abbr> trip<\/a>). As winter (or, more precisely, the carnival time) in Austria is almost unthinkable without balls, it is more or less mandatory to attend at least one of these events.<!--more--><\/p>\n  <div class=\"quer_re wp-caption alignright single-image\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/austria\/wien\/index_16.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img256x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/austria\/wien\/thumb\/58.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Ball at the Imperial Palace (Hofburg)\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Ball at the Imperial Palace (Hofburg)\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<p>Even though I no longer take any dancing classes (in fact, my last course was ten years ago), I still enjoy going to a ball every once in a while. Therefore, I took the opportunity this year to attended two balls in the Hofburg (the old Imperial Palace), which is of course an amazing location for such an event. There, I spent the night (yes, the whole night: Viennese balls last until early morning) dancing all kinds of ballroom dances.<\/p>\n<p>For visitors to Vienna, it is highly recommendable to go to a ball during carnival season. All you need is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n  a ball gown (for women), and a tuxedo, a tailcoat, or a black suit with a bow tie (for men),\n <\/li>\n<li>\n  a bit of talent (and, preferably, also affection) for dancing, and\n <\/li>\n<li>\n  enough money, as tickets and drinks are (sometimes insanely) expensive.\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr style=\"margin:2em 25%; width:50%; clear:left;\" \/>\n<div class=\"small\">\n <abbr title=\"Nota bene\">N.B.<\/abbr>: &quot;<span xml:lang=\"de\" lang=\"de\">Alles Walzer!<\/span>&quot; is German for &quot;Everyone waltz!&quot;, and is the traditional phrase for opening a ball, inviting everyone (and not only the opening committee that usually performs a rehearsed choreography at the very beginning of a ball) to the dance floor.\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vienna","country-at"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}