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July 12, 2006
Photos from Salzburg
A view of the old city as the sun sets
Klagenfurt = great friends and great food
I’ve already touched upon just how great Iris, Christian and their family have been to us. They have served not only as tour guides but also as culinary guides. I’m going to go on the record now and say that the food in Austria is as good as anywhere in the world.
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One Wild Dinner Party
After the excitement of the Kart Racing we headed to Iris’ parent’s house for a birthday party for her mother. The family has a special place in their collective heart for Greece so this meant that the evening had a Greek theme.
We started with an aperitif, Ouzo, and then drank and dined on the best of Greece. Everything from roasted peppers stuffed with Feta to Moussakka. To drink, we had not only a limitless supply of fine Austrian beer but also something neither Erica nor myself had ever had – Kourtaki retsina.
12 bottles later.....
Super Mario Kart
The city of Salzburg is a beautiful one, and there was much to see and do there but after camping with the moles we both felt like it was time to get back to civilization for awhile. To that end we were blessed as we had organized to visit with Erica’s friends in Klagenfurt, a stone’s throw from the borders of both Italy and Slovenia.
YOU STINK!!!
After the trip to Hellbrunn and the adjoining zoo we thought it might be time to check our email so we jumped on a bus to the central station...
Super Tourists in action
One of the cooler things about Salzburg tourism is the fact that they offer a card that enables you to get into a lot of major attractions for nothing. We paid 23 EUR each for a 24 hour period and they were well worth it.
Schwimbad is very good.
The morning after the mole incident we figured it might be time to visit the baths that had been promoted as being 10 minutes away from the campsite. We asked the girl at reception and she’d never heard of them…she also said that it was normal and okay to have moles under our tent so she wasn’t the brightest of people.
July 06, 2006
Making a mountain out of a mole hill
Whoever came up with that pearl of wisdom had obviously never had a bloody mole burrowing under their tent at 4am – that’s exactly what we had last night.
WOW : What an Eishöhle! part II
Both E and I agree that the caves (also including the views on the hikes up) were the coolest thing we’ve seen so far on our trip - although I thought the hike to the bottom of Neuschwanstein’s waterfall to be physically harder, and Neuschwanstein itself to be awesome, this excursion combined the beauty of nature with a high degree of physicality and a new experience.
What an Eishöhle!
Today E and I decided to take a trip to the ice caves. We thought about doing one of the tour buses that run from the center of town (or will even pick you up from your hotel/campsite etc.) but after reading the fine print we figured we’d be better off (financially) doing it ourselves. So we boarded the train and ended up in a beautiful town called Werfen.
Tour de bloody what?
We arrived in Salzburg via train from Vienna amidst the chaos of a large bicycle race. I’m showing my ignorance, but we have no idea of what race it was. I do know, however, that it caused no end of trouble for the public transport in the city.
July 03, 2006
Strange blog
Sue sent us a funny, strange blog link the other day --http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com
If you have time to kill--
It's strange enough that it exists and that we look at it. It was even stranger that I was looking at it in Germany.
Regardless, now that we're in Austria Iit might be worthy of a random, free wifi posting.
Hmmmmmm......
I think we may need to have a change of plans...
So this is where "Weiner" comes from
We’ve spent more time in Vienna than we expected but that’s fine because it’s a really nice city. Full of cultural things like opera, music, art, and history.
Things different
Our time in Austria has been a lot different from that in Germany.
Germany was really fast paced and a bit chaotic since it was World Cup feverish and since we had the car and wanted to see all of the German Hundertwasser sites.
Penalty Nightmare…and a mad Englishman
We spent yesterday hanging out with a mad Englishman named Phil. He was on holiday from his job in China and was interested in seeing the Hundertwasser sites so he came along with us on our pilgrimage.
July 02, 2006
Ah, a new country category, how fun!
So the train ride was awesome. It took troy a bit of getting used to as our room was really small, but it was heaps better than the 6 person per compartment room I had the last time I went on an overnight train (Which was right before I met Troy).
June 21, 2006
My bloody fear of heights
My bloody fear of heights gives me the shits sometimes. I think I miss out on doing loads of cool things because I don’t want to deal with the height factor. Actually, it’s not all about the heights, it more about the wind…then again the London Eye was inside and that was painful for me too. This is part of the problem for me. I never k now what activities are going to freak me out.
We rode a giant chairlift up a mountain and I was fine but I got pretty queasy stand atop the Arc d’Triomphe a few years back (and that’s only about 100 feet high). I love roller coasters even though they leave you very high and often without anything below you.
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