Second-last full day of my trip, my last full day at the Achensee - and yes,I finally got to Tratzberg Castle. It was a gorgeous place to visit, even if it seemed odd to listen to an audio guide where there was an actual flesh-and-blood guide standing in the room. I know I was looking for things to be testy about (I always get tense during the ( Read more... )

Today was Innsbruck Mark II and was hugely satisfying! I did a bit of shopping, for myself and others, on the way to the Stadtsarchive, and once there spent two hours hunting through books for information about Tyrol and Innsbruck in the early decades of the 1920s. I have purchased myself a handheld scanner and so scanned all of the information I ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to me ( Read more... )

I am quite glad today is over. Today was my revisit of Salzburg, and I was living in fear that I would much up the train times somehow and miss the bus back to Pertisau, so I am relieved to be back. Despite my concerns, I had fun today! I visited the Hellbrun Palace and in particular the trick water fountains, so I have been well and truly ( Read more... )

Today was a public holiday - Austrian National Day - so it was a bit like Sunday in that I was determined not to go far from the lakeside in case there were bus problems and I had to get a taxi back to the hotel ( Read more... )

Three weeks in and, as promised, I took today easily. It was a peaceful Sunday, although sadly without the gypsy band to listen to outside any of the Pertisau hotels. Instead I caught the boat down the lake to Scholastika then jumped on the bus for a tour through the streets of Achenkirch. I've walked that stretch (or half of it) during my last ( Read more... )

I would like to begin today's entry by announcing that any rumours you might have heard about me going for a walk in the mountains above Pertisau, that I may have come to a very slippery part, and that I may have fallen gracelessly (and painfully) on my backside is a complete and vicious lie ( Read more... )

Today involved a lot of doubling back on myself and made me wish I had checked things a bit more than I did before I left. (That's not to say I didn't do lots of it, just that this was one area I should have looked at more closely ( Read more... )

After the controlled chaos of yesterday, today was a lot calmer. I went to Hall in Tirol, and after tossing up skipping breakfast to do the 10am tour, I eventually decided only to do the tour of the mock-mine at 11.30. I've been to Hall several times before, and even did this tour before, but I had forgotten a lot of it and it was lovely to be able ( Read more... )

Wow, I am super tired tonight! For the first time I was out so late that I went straight from the bus to dinner and have only just come up to my room. Every other night I have got back to the hotel before 6pm so I had some down-time, but not tonight ( Read more... )