{"id":15,"date":"2007-12-24T06:13:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/personalblog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T00:00:34","slug":"back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/personalblog\/back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back home in Austria for the holidays. And immediately upon arriving at the airport in Vienna I started enjoying some of the small things that make home feel like home. Just to mention a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perfumed, colorful, not easily tearable toilet paper.<\/li>\n<li>Tap water you can actually drink and it doesn&#8217;t taste like shit.<\/li>\n<li>Lovely bakeries with good bread and a much greater variety than you could find in the US.<\/li>\n<li>The best sausages in the world!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leberk%C3%A4se\">Leberk\u00c3\u00a4se<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A chocolate and candy section in the super market that&#8217;s at least three times the size as in Vons, Walmart, etc&#8230;again with a much greater variety.<\/li>\n<li>Snow on Christmas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yellow Toilet Paper\" title=\"Yellow Toilet Paper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/pictures\/various\/Toilet%20Paper%20Yellow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blue Toilet Paper\" title=\"Blue Toilet Paper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/pictures\/various\/Toilet%20Paper%20Blue.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are also some downsides. I already miss the San Diego weather. As much as I enjoy a white Xmas, I just hate the coooold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back home in Austria for the holidays. And immediately upon arriving at the airport in Vienna I started enjoying some of the small things that make home feel like home. Just to mention a few: Perfumed, colorful, not easily tearable toilet paper. Tap water you can actually drink and it doesn&#8217;t taste like shit. 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