Welcome!

Well hello there!

I'm happy to welcome you to my first blog and post!

Firstly, let me introduce myself - my name is Rachael, originally from the UK but grew up in Belgium and Denmark. I've been living in Vienna for 11 years now. Originally I moved here to hang out with my parents for two months, but ended up finding a fun job, doing my MA and then met my husband and we got married and had our first son (Knut / aka "Little K") almost two years ago. We are now expecting our second baby!

Why am I here? Well, with my first pregnancy/kid it turned out that I was finding out lots of fun and exciting things to do in Vienna with a baby and I wanted to create a blog but just didn't get round to doing it. Now, I got my second chance so here I am!

What can you expect to find here? Hopefully some interesting tips, inspiration and any other general comments and thoughts about being an "expat" mummy of two in Wien :)

Rachael


Location: Vienna, Austria

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