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Today we had our biggest adventure of the trip so far... driving off road, hiking across a lava field in a blizzard and crawling through holes and sliding on ice in a lava cave with beautiful ice sculptures. Fab! Our guide, Thor, picked us up from our Airbnb just after 10.00. He looked like a... Continue Reading →
I'm very fed up today. We've had more torrential rain, thunder and lightning, and even some huge hailstones. We tried to visit some ice caves an hour away but the rain made driving difficult and then we ended up in stationary traffic and decided to turn back. We spent the afternoon binge watching Breaking Bad... Continue Reading →
We were quite late going to sleep last night because we lay in bed listening to the thunder rumbling around the neighbouring valleys, and watching the lightning flashes through the windows. This morning it was still very cloudy and damp so, after croissants and coffee for breakfast, we decided to visit the Sigmund-Thun gorge, which... Continue Reading →
We got up early, had our cinnamon rolls and a coffee and then set off to catch the bus up the valley to the cable car station. Here we cheated and got 2 lifts up to the foot of Kitzsteinhorn, a 3200m high mountain, which is covered in glaciers.The cloud was down all the way... Continue Reading →
We had a lazy day today, intending to recover from yesterday's hike and make plans for our week in Kaprun. We woke fairly early but didn't rush to get up, reading and drinking tea in bed. We then had breakfast in the sunshine before finding the footpath along the river into the town.It didn't take... Continue Reading →
We slept until 8.00 today then John woke me up, wanting to beat the Germans to the waterfall! We were the first campervan in the parking area, so we did ok! The day ended up being quite a long because we ended up hiking 24k with 670m of ascent.The waterfall drops 380m over 3 levels,... Continue Reading →
We were fast asleep at about 8.30 to 9.00ish last night and had a great night's sleep, which meant that we woke bright and early this morning at about 6.00, feeling refreshed. We had a cup of tea in bed, followed by breakfast, then washed, dressed and hit the road.Despite it being early, the roads... Continue Reading →
Someone was hammering at 3.30 in the morning! Ugh! I had slept well up until that point but, afterwards, kept waking up, wondering what time it was. Our train was at 5.20 so at about 4.20, I made a cup of tea and we got dressed and put the bed away.Once we were on the... Continue Reading →
I have a new camera and a new iPad so I thought I'd better do a practice blog to make sure everything will work ok once we hit the road. Good job I did. I took a few pictures of the van, no problem, but when I came to upload them to the iPad, of... Continue Reading →
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