Blogs from Lower Austria, Austria, Europe

We departed the Salzburg Sheraton and headed south into the alps. We had a full morning of driving. Our principal destination was the The Grossglockner High Alpine Road (Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße). It is a panoramic road in Austria. It ascends Großglockner, Austria's highest mountain. There are a number of hair pin turns on the way to the top – approximately 2500 metres. The pass just recently opened for the season, but there is still plenty of snow on the top. At points the narrow road is lined by up to 10 feet of snow on either side. At the top there is a small visitor centre. We were amazed to see the number of cyclists tackling this gruelling climb. It was truly one of the most exhilarating drives I have ever taken. Josh was delighted to hurl a ... read more

Hello so tomorrow we are off to Munich, got a very long jounrey to a whole new country! another one to tick of the list, we are leaving here at 11am and will arrive in Munich at 6.30 and are then staying in a hostel, my very first hostel experience. We will stay there 2 nights and the next stop is a small town called Tutzing which is a 30min train jounrey and will be staying with a couple who run a theraputic horse riding school for disabled children. We have decided not to put time limits on placements and instead just go with the flow, after all we was meant to leave here about 10 days ago but wanted to extend our stay. The next few days are going to be expensive as lots of ... read more

reisevorbereitungen sind abgeschlossen. samstag wird gepackt, sonntag abend gehts los. wir werden 58 tage in kambodscha, vietnam und thailand unterwegs sein. 1. stop ist siem reap in kambodscha, da werden wir eine woche bleiben. weiter geht's nach phnom penh, kampot und dann nach vietnam.... read more

bonjour, so a bullet point update i drank silver i chopped wood i got sick i chopped wood davy got sick davy gathered wood davy got better i made lunch for everyone we chopped wood we went to melk and got postcards and ate cheese we all chopped wood now we are drinking tea planning tomorrows day of chopping wood onwards and outwards... read more

So the hotel drama continued and we realised that the money for the hotel had been taken out of davys bank! and we had paid again to stay at a different place so in morning we basically had an argument with a fat turkish man! went mad and stayed in his scabby dirty cigar smelling hotel the second night! Salzberg was beautiful but so so cold and snowy..i deffo wanna visit there again in the summer months, luckily the other helper girl Anna has a house there and has invited us to stay in summer...we went to the salzburg bridge and saw that on it were hundreds on different style, shape and coloured padlocks and it looked so pretty...i googled why these were here and discovered they are love locks...as yesterday was the anniversary of my ... read more

So we have arrived in salzburg and are currently in a little b&b but boy have we had an eventful day.... So about a week ago we booked a hotel in salzburg online for tonight and tomorrow night as we planned to leave our host today and head to our next host and salzburg was on the way so we thought we would stop there.......since then our next host let us down and after many emails to other people we didnt find anyone else to host us..so we asked if we were able to stay with family moerth on their farm and they said they would be very happy for us to stay as long as we like, our next step was to cancel the hotel we booked... After trying to cancel online many times and ... read more

Leila: We should make cock soup Davy: I dont want to put my cock in soup... read more

Hey everyone, So how has snowy Austria been treating us? Well.....on thursday evening we was invited to an awards ceromony as both the children have won karate awards, we were so excited to actually get out and wear non farm people clothes!! we were told to dress casual and comfortable...so i put on jeans and davy wore joggers! we arrived and all we could see was people in suits and ladies in long dresses! as we walked in there was cameras flashing in every direction and a long red carpet leading up some stairs!! the photographer was chatting away in german and im assuming he was asking us to stand still for a photo! and before we could explain that we were literally just helpers that work on a farm the camera was going mad at ... read more

Hiya, So on Saturday we went to Melk town and its the first time we have been away from this farm and the land around it...as soon as we were dropped off the very first thing we done was headed for a newsagents and bought sweets and chocolate and a can of drink!!...5 days with not a grain of sugar or anything unhealthy is quite enough for me...we had to then sneak the food back into the house and felt like naughty teenagers trying to sneak in cigarettes!! i seriously feel like we would be in loadsa trouble if she found our stash! Yesterday Davy and I fed the animals by ourselves with no guidance and hopefully we made no mistakes and gave them all the right thing, we also put the geese away on our ... read more

i have just been asked if i want to learn how to slaughter a chicken! i feel that the answer is no did u know that chickens are snow blind, so when it snows you have to make a path for them to follow otherwise they will get lost! thats literally it im afraid.....busy busy farm girl but at least u know im safe xxxx... read more