Heute um 16:00 ging es los: zwischen 300 und 4.000 Demonstranten (300 am Start, lt. Polizei ca. 2.000, laut Veranstalter um die 4.000) starteten beim Hauptgebäude der Karl-Franzens Universität. Die Protestwelle kämpfte sich mit Trillerpfeifen und der Hilfe einiger Polizisten über die Glacisstraße zum Jakomini- und schließlich zum Hauptplatz.

Gefordert wird unter anderem (aus einem Mail der ÖH kopiert):

- Anhebung des österreichischen Bildungsbudgets

- eine Re-Demokratisierung der Universitäten

- Keine Beschränkungen von Bachelor-, Masterstudien und PhD-Programmen

- Menschenwürdige Arbeitsverträge für alle Bediensteten an den Universitäten

- genug räumliche und personelle Ressourcen

Gegen 19:00 ging es dann auch schon friedlich zu Ende.

As I painted my last draft with Adobe Photoshop, I had to try the software that was included with my graph tablet (Wacom Bamboo Fun Medium): Art Rage 2, a painting software. For a beginner like me it’s easier to get an acceptable result within a short time, than in Photoshop. There are at least (Starter version = Freeware, also for Mac) 8 tools like a brush (Pinsel), a pencil (Bleistift), a scraper (Spachtel/Schaber), a marker (Filzstift) and so on. With them it’s much easier to colourise the paintings. I really like the feature that the paint is not drying fast, so it’s like painting it manually. You can also use different layers like in Photoshop.

So I can really recommend testing the software!

(it took about 50 minutes to learn the ropes and paint this – but I didn’t want to finalise it today)

As I’ve decided to finish the holidays here in Klagenfurt I had to paddle with my brother thru the Wörthersee for a last time.

Ok, it was hiking and no mountaineering. But walking nearly 10 hour a day is also exhausting.

Starting point was the lake Turracher See (1.763 m) and the route was: ‘Barbara-Weg’ to the top of Rinsennock (2.334 m), Pregatscharte (1.902 m),  Schneegrubensattel (2.000 m), Stangscharte (2.076 m), Karlnock (2.310 m), Großer Königsstuhl (2.336 m) and the same route back (but not over Rinsennock).

On the way to Rinsennock (mountain on the left):

Panorama view on the top of Königsstuhl (view back to the Rinsennock – in the east):

Now we made it: we (with the same friend as last time) mountaineered up to the highest mountain of the Karawanken, the so called Hochstuhl (2.237 m). There is a via ferrata (fixed rope route=Klettersteig) to the top of the mountain with the grade B/C (middle to hard). The entrance to this via ferrata is on the way up to the Klagenfurter Hütte and it takes about 2-3 hours from this way (about 1.500 m) to the top of the mountain.

For people having no head for heights (like me ) I would recommend some carabiners and a rope to feel more secure. But you live and  learn…

On the top, the view is awesome (Klagenfurt, Villach, Großglockner, Jesenice, Triglav, Bled,…):

For the descend we chose another route via Slovenia to the anticline (Bergsattel) of the mountain Bielschitza back to the Klagenfurter Hütte (1,5-2,5 hours):