Austrian travel mummy

Austrian travel mummy World traveler, mummy, animal lover

Travel has always been a passion of mine and I was looking forward to incorporating that passion into our family life.
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Beaches to visit during RamadanWith the end of beach season slowly creeping up on us, these beaches will help you have a...
27/03/2023

Beaches to visit during Ramadan
With the end of beach season slowly creeping up on us, these beaches will help you have an easy & enjoyable beach day this Ramadan

These beaches are "manicured" beaches, so they include all the creature comforts like bathrooms, showers, entertainment, f&b options* (check the slides for Ramadan info about this) & are conveniently located close to the city

๐ŸŸกB12 Beach Club
๐ŸŸก974 Beach Club
๐ŸŸกWestbay Beach
๐ŸŸกDoha Sands
๐ŸŸกKatara Beach

And a little Bonus:
๐ŸŸกAl Wakra Family Beach

Remember to pack your sunscreen & sand toys for a memorable day out ๐Ÿ’›

โš ๏ธNote:
These beaches will close soon as the season ends

Ramadan Kareem

10 BEST PARKS DURING SUMMERPART 3: ShadedStill looking for some good park options for summer?Shade is ESSENTIAL & these ...
16/03/2023

10 BEST PARKS DURING SUMMER
PART 3: Shaded
Still looking for some good park options for summer?
Shade is ESSENTIAL & these are our top picks out of the bunch.

TOP PICKS:
๐ŸŸฃAl Maamoura Family Park
๐ŸŸฃAl Soundan Family Park
๐ŸŸฃQatar Green Family Park
๐ŸŸฃAl Manaseer Park
๐ŸŸฃHazm Al Markhiya Park
๐ŸŸฃAl Luqta Park for women & children
๐ŸŸฃAl Hitmi Park
๐ŸŸฃAli Bin Jassim Park
๐ŸŸฃNew Onaiza Family Park
๐ŸŸฃDesert Garden Park

All of these are well shaded & have free parking next to the park.

NOTE:
๐Ÿ’งHazm Al Markhiya has a mini water fountain that turns on after 4pm
๐Ÿ’งMost of these parks also have drinking fountains & all have toilets

ATTENTION
While all these play areas are shaded please be mindful of the metal equipment & sun spots ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Now you have 21 "summer proof" to keep your little ones entertained without paying for any indoor play area ๐Ÿ˜‰

6 BEST PARKS DURING SUMMERPART 1: WATER FEATURESWith the weather getting hotter it can be tricky to get outside.Luckily ...
13/03/2023

6 BEST PARKS DURING SUMMER
PART 1: WATER FEATURES
With the weather getting hotter it can be tricky to get outside.
Luckily there are a bunch of parks that make it easier & fun to get outside & play

Let's kick off our 4-part series with some parks with water features

OUR TOP PICKS:
๐Ÿ’งHotel Park
๐Ÿ’งLegtaifiya Park
๐Ÿ’งWest Green Spine (water & sand playground)
๐Ÿ’งQurโ€™anic Botanic Gardens
๐Ÿ’งQatar TotalEnergies Playground
๐Ÿ’งMsheireb Playground

Most of these have shaded/semi-shaded play areas but all of them have water.
These are ideal to cool down during the hot weather!

๐Ÿ‘TOP TIP:
Bring an extra set of clothes & towel for when the kids get totally soaked (and the will) or
Wait about 10mins for them to bake dry again ๐Ÿ˜‰

โš ๏ธNOTE:
During summer the fountains & water features usually turn on after 16:00 as a water saving directive

Msherib playground however is usually on all day

We canโ€™t wait to see how Qatar Total Energies Playground will work with their misting & water

๐Ÿ’ฆStay tuned for Part 2 of our 4 part series๐Ÿ’ฆ


KidzBox  is our latest find. You won't be disappointed with this cool location! Today we decided to check out the KidzBo...
03/10/2022

KidzBox is our latest find. You won't be disappointed with this cool location! Today we decided to check out the KidzBox at the Wyndham Westbay Doha. Beforehand I haven't found much information online about it so we were very curious. I was highly impressed. The entire space is extremely clean and very well maintained almost feels as if it is new....

KidzBox is our latest find. You wonโ€™t be disappointed with this cool location! Today we decided to check out the KidzBox at the Wyndham Westbay Doha. Beforehand I haven& #8โ€ฆ

This was our first vacation in Arica and we were more than excited to spend 3 weeks out of the Qatar heat. We opted for ...
21/09/2022

This was our first vacation in Arica and we were more than excited to spend 3 weeks out of the Qatar heat. We opted for the 2 am night flight directly with Qatar Airways to Zanzibar. Personally looking back I rather not take any more night flights with Athena. While she was very well behaved we got little sleep and then we had turbulences towards the end....

This was our first vacation in Arica and we were more than excited to spend 3 weeks out of the Qatar heat. We opted for the 2 am night flight directly with Qatar Airways to Zanzibar. Personally looโ€ฆ

19/07/2022
19/07/2022
๐๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐–๐ก๐จ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐–๐š๐ง๐ง๐š ๐๐ž๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ...
09/07/2022

๐๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐–๐ก๐จ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐–๐š๐ง๐ง๐š ๐๐ž

๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘“๐‘“๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›/ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›

There are certain habits you need to adapt and mindset shifts that need to happen if you really want to become financially independent.

I highly advise you to take some time out of your day and ask yourself what you really want, what are things that you do not want, what is mandatory for you to have.

Once you know you will understand what habits you need to adapt to become this improved version of yourself.

Once you know practice being that person with these habits every day and put all your energy into it.

You don't have to implement all the habits at once, just take it step by step.

Just remember to not be too hard on yourself, but still, know that when you overcome fear or challenging situations you are growing.

Good things don't come easy but with effort and hard work you can achieve anything.

Just always remember you are beautiful and powerful

Bettina

Are you happy or unhappy?
08/06/2021

Are you happy or unhappy?

Its all about becoming
07/06/2021

Its all about becoming


๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐ฒ๐ž๐ญ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐š๐›๐ฒ?You had your baby and you are just starting to figure this whole mothe...
03/06/2021

๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐ฒ๐ž๐ญ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐š๐›๐ฒ?

You had your baby and you are just starting to figure this whole motherhood role out.

And here come all the people starting to ask you when you are gonna go back to the gym, exercise more, eat less, and whatnot.

It's not easy with all these celebrities having multiple babies and shortly after they look like they have never even been pregnant.

I know you maybe want to lose your baby weight or fit in your old clothes again at one point.

But I say ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ.

You have just literally created another human being inside your belly, that's hard work.

๐ผ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘‘.

๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘› (๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก'๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘”๐‘’) ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘’.

๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘’๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘› (๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“) ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›/๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘.

I think it's fair to have you earned yourself the right to relax.
Your body needs to heal.
You need to heal
Your life has drastically changed in so many ways, you do not need to fit in this "ideal" image (you actually never need to fit in it).

Of course, I am not saying binge eat all the sweets, chocolates, chips, and takeaway meals you can find, but what I am saying is.

๐“๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž.
๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ-๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž.

Look after yourself, enjoy the time with your little bundle of joy.

There is no rule when you need to get in shape.

For some it's earlier, some later and some never -> it's all ok.

You are beautiful the way you are ๐Ÿค

After lockdown we can finally cool down at the pool again .... Nobody there ... even better for us
31/05/2021

After lockdown we can finally cool down at the pool again ....

Nobody there ... even better for us

22/03/2021
A year ago on this day, my life turned upside down.I was no longer in control...It was supposed to be a great day, a day...
17/03/2021

A year ago on this day, my life turned upside down.


I was no longer in control...

It was supposed to be a great day, a day where we say goodbye to the UK and join my husband in Qatar to start a new adventure.

The 2 weeks leading up to this day were extremely busy with cleaning, packing, ending contracts, saying goodbye to friends, and arranging the paperwork for my cat.

That day at 4am in the morning we headed to the airport after receiving confirmation the night before that our booking was confirmed and we can fly.

At 5am we arrived at the airport to check-in.

It was early I barely slept.

At check-in, we were then told we are not allowed to board the flight as no one can fly to Qatar any more.

I was in shock.

What was I supposed to do?

I had no home anymore in the UK, all our belongings except the few basic things I had in the luggage were with my husband in Qatar.

I just started functioning

I had to be strong for my 10-month-old baby.

Luckily I had my dad with me but we didn't have much time to figure things out as he had to catch the bus to go to another airport and hopefully catch his flight (that we didn't know if it would go either)

I couldn't change my booking as there were no flights with Qatar Airways to Vienna, so we had to get all my stuff (3 large luggage, a pushchair, a car seat, my cat, a pack back, and hand luggage ) to the other terminal in the hope of getting a flight to Austria.

I managed to book myself, my daughter, and my cat on the flight, although it wasn't cheap at least it meant we wouldn't be homeless.

We had to however wait until 2pm for the flight to leave until then it was waiting at the airport, keeping a distance.

A kind security officer gave me a wheelchair so I didn't have to carry my cat, hand luggage and pack back around.

I managed to grab some lunch although we couldn't finish it due to the restaurant's closing.

The waiting was horribly filled with tons of phone calls to my husband and family trying to make sense of the situation, finding a solution, and constantly updating what is going on. I was happy to find out that my dad made it safe to the airport and could fly to Austria (later we found out it was the last flight there)

I finally could go to the gate where a hostess decided to have a bad day and wanted to refuse my cat onboard (after it being previously confirmed 3 times).
I managed to get another hostess to have him fly cargo as I was for sure not leaving him behind.

The flight to Vienna was stressful as I didn't know what to expect. It was very sad as we didn't fly where we were supposed to fly to and couldn't reunite with my husband.
Although my relatives who live there offered to come and help I didn't want them to take any chances of getting infected.

It took me forever to gather all my belongings, much to the amusement of the 7 ambulance guys measuring temperatures, a policeman, and a fireman. I guess measuring the cats temperature was very funny and more important than trying to help.

But I made it, I got my train ticket and managed with the help of a young gentleman to get all my stuff on the train.

The train ride took forever with an extra delay, but at least I knew I would soon arrive at my parents and have a roof over our heads.

At the train station in Innsbruck my dad picked us up and we were finally on the last part of our journey.

Arriving home just after midnight was a relief.

Due to the uncertain situation, we immediately took our clothes off to have them washed, disinfected everything, and didn't hug.

We couldn't risk anyone getting infected.

It was very hard as after such a long exhausting day of just functioning I just wanted to be comforted and held.

That day will forever be part of my life.

Looking back I am now proud of myself that I overcame all the challenges thrown at me.

No one knew that this day would mean, not seeing my husband for 10 months, my daughter not seeing her dad for 10 months. My husband missing her first birthday, her first steps.

In this year lots has changed, I worked extremely on my personal development, I grew my business thanks to an amazing mastermind and we spent 10 months in Austria, with my parents, my grandma, and my bunny.

I just know no matter how difficult life gets, we have to keep going.

If we want to be a great leader to our children, family, and clients we have to not let our circumstances define us. We have to embrace our situation and rise above to come out on top.

We got this

If you look back to 365 days ago, can you say that you have grown and evolved?

Last Sunday we celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary Let's just say we had a great lunch and little one had so much fun...
17/03/2021

Last Sunday we celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary

Let's just say we had a great lunch and little one had so much fun at the beach.

We just live this place

28/02/2021

1st  day of nursery
15/02/2021

1st day of nursery

Spaghetti with peas and pesto topped with mozzarella Graoes and banana
07/02/2021

Spaghetti with peas and pesto topped with mozzarella

Graoes and banana

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. Saying goodbye to an animal is so difficult, the...
05/02/2021

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Saying goodbye to an animal is so difficult, they fill our heart with so much love.

Call me crazy but today was difficult.

Saying goodbye to my bunny was so hard especially that I wasn't there.

Videochat helped and knowing that he was loved from the beginning to the end makes it a little easier.

Cali our American bunny will be missed

๐Ÿ‡โ˜๏ธ

Potatoe and sweet potatoe, zucchini, cauliflower, salmon, creme fraiche, eggs, mozzarella, onions
02/02/2021

Potatoe and sweet potatoe, zucchini, cauliflower, salmon, creme fraiche, eggs, mozzarella, onions

Breakfast time Yoghurt with raspberries, strawberries, oranges, chia seeds.
02/02/2021

Breakfast time

Yoghurt with raspberries, strawberries, oranges, chia seeds.

We had delicious lunch today and these organic coconut flour pancakes with low sugar yam, Greek yoghurt and berries were...
30/01/2021

We had delicious lunch today and these organic coconut flour pancakes with low sugar yam, Greek yoghurt and berries were amazing

Couscous with peas and shrimp Strawberries and raspberries
27/01/2021

Couscous with peas and shrimp

Strawberries and raspberries

Qpple  cinnamon, oats pancake with banana and peach
27/01/2021

Qpple cinnamon, oats pancake with banana and peach

Quinoa pasta zucchini, butrernut squash, carrot, peppers , eggs Apple puree Grapes
25/01/2021

Quinoa pasta zucchini, butrernut squash, carrot, peppers , eggs

Apple puree
Grapes

25/01/2021

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