Today was, as EBD would say, a mixed bag. I am beginning to feel that the universe is unhappy when I try to go and see anything that is not Chalet-related. Today I left nice and early to go to Woergl (love that place-name!) so that I could catch a bus that would take me to a wood-carving museum. I have checked many details of this online, both on ( Read more... )

Okay, so one of the nearby hotels is playing something musical with brass instruments and then letting off a cannon every minute or so. My heart is correspondingly stopping every minute or so. If there are typos in this, that's why. (I will leave them in in case they prove either to be amusing or to demonstrate how I was spending my final few ( Read more... )

It's Sunday. Yes, stating the obvious is a wonderful way to begin, but you see, I've always kept that idea firmly in mind. You see, when I was here last time, I made the mistake of not realising that the last bus of the day doesn't run on Sundays, meaning I had to get the taxi back from Jenbach. It was painfully expensive. So this time I have ( Read more... )

Third time's the charm! I have finally visited the Stubai Glacier - hooray! I just happened to check the Stubai webcam this morning early and it all looked nice and clear so I went to Innsbruck and jumped on a bus, arriving just before midday. I didn't stay long, but at least I ticked it off the list ( Read more... )

Today I discovered that EBD is not always as silly/lazy as I thought she might have been. I went to Kufstein today, a place that is mentioned in several Chalet School books, but which actually only gets one actual paragraph of description, in which we learn that it has a museum that gets very few visitors ( Read more... )

Perhaps unsurprisingly after yesterday, I took today really rather easy! I decided to take full advantage of the allowance I have as a result of purchasing an Erlebniscard which gives me unlimited travel on the ferry and steam-train to traverse the lake four times and also to travel down to Jenbach and back. I popped into the Jenbach museum and ( Read more... )

Wow, double figures already! So today has, of course, all been based around the Achensee. I went out this morning and purchased some food, drink and other necessities from a supermarket on the far side of the lake. (As breakfast isn't served until 8am, I like having something to eat beforehand if I'm hungry. Extra drinks help as well.) I then ( Read more... )

Pertisau at last! It's lovely to think I still have so many delightful days here ahead of me. I was also delighted to be personally greeted by the head waiter and also the head of front-of-house. Oh, and there are cows outside the window with bells jingling. And it's nice and cold here (which I love). And my job has made me so much fitter than I ( Read more... )

Exactly one week ago and the plane on which I was travelling had finally touched down in Switzerland after that looong trip. And yet it feels like I've been travelling for seven weeks, not seven days ( Read more... )

I feel cowardly but I've decided I can't bring myself to stay in Salzburg on my last night in Europe. It being Sunday, it would be almost impossible to get from Pertisau to Munich in time for my flight home so I had orginally decided to spend the final night in Salzburg and then catch the train. However today, for the first time, I caught the train ( Read more... )