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Vienna 2025: Getting Outside

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It just so happened that we had two trips into the country in just this past week - so here are lots of photos, as we've had a great time! With the Freelearners On Facebook, I connected with a fellow free learning family in Austria. There are a few of them, much fewer than in the UK but it is a legal choice to home educate; although there are exams at the end of every school year. Which is fine through primary, but makes a child led education all but impossible in the secondary years as all subjects have to be covered. I learned a lot about the legal situation here and how families cope... and we all had a fantastic time at this family's organic milk farm. The kids loved that there was a pond to float on, a tractor to ride, fruit to pick, cows to milk and cats to pet - as well as three lovely kids to play with who are clearly having the best childhood ever! Seeing old friends Since we did the same kids' camp every year until this year, we had made some lovely friends there ...
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Vienna 2025: Cool, cool summer

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How different this summer is to our previous ones! 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 ... while there were a few rare cooler days in some of those years (though not a single one last year) it was generally stifling, 30+ degrees every day, we've had balmy mid-20's almost the entire time now. The first week was hot, but it has since cooled down and this has enabled us to do lots of things we just couldn't face in the heat of previous years! Museums On the weekend, we visited the Vienna City Museum and learned about the city's roots in antiquity, as well as noting quite a few artefacts I remember from my own youth - such as the metal whale, which had been outside a well known restaurant called 'The Whalefish' when I was a kid... I remember finding it quite fascinating, and my kids did too, seeing it in the museum! The next day, we visited Schönbrunn Palace - not the main Palace part, which I thought would be too dry for the kids, but the children's museum and labyrinth....
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