My last Friday in Vienna and final day of work happened to coincide with the BOKU ball, held in the imperial residence of the Habsburgs, the Hofburg.
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| Main ballroom - the dance floor was full all night, here people are starting to disperse because it's 4.30am... |
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| Smaller side ballroom , with a more representative number of people dancing. |
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Due to its strong links with rural Austria, the BOKU ball has a dual dress code: either floor-length evening dresses or Tracht (traditional costume).
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| Steph and Ianthe modelling the dirndl. |
Determined to dance as much as possible, I had selected a hapless victim and subjected him to waltz lessons in the T
ürkenschanzpark (yes, in January...) with excellent results. We had a wonderful evening featuring a lot of dancing interspersed with happy encounters with friends (from Austria, Oxford, America...), colleagues, and Erasmus students I had helped induct.
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| With Luca, the hapless victim. For the record, he did volunteer himself. |
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