Blogs from Tyrol, Austria, Europe - page 32

OMG~ as soon as we drove into Austria, my heart skipped a beat. Gorgeous green mountains, rivers, lush green grass and the friendliest people on the planet. Always smiling and helpful even when they don’t understand us. The day started off very well with a gorgeous mountain bike ride through the forest, mountain and along the river. The ride was 10kms long stopping half way of a nice lunch in a traditional house. It gave me time to think, this world has so much to offer and traveling is the one thing I will never stop doing. Breathing in the fresh air and seeing these mountains made me realize why city slickers go for the sea change or green change. It’s amazing and the best place so far on my trip. After the mountain bike ... read more

Liechtenstein very confusing for cycling. We seem to be going in circles and spend a lot of the day in this very small country - the size of Surrey? And it´s generally a drizzly day from lunch onwards except for the time we are in the train from Feldkirch Austria to Innsbruck. We need to make this long trip by train to avoid the 1000 meter 32 swtichback climb we had planned to do to cross the Arlberg Pass and also to catch up to our schedule which is to put us into Vienna on the 23rd. About 3 p.m. one older man saves the day for us in Liechtenstein as he orders us to 'Halt' from his car as we proceed down a dead end road. He gruffly tells us to go up a ... read more

After leaving Hallstatt we were on way to Innsbruck. Th train trip was real postcard stuff, mountains, lakes, rivers all the way. We had to change trains at a place named Stainach. While we were scoffing down breakfast on the platform an old local came up to us for a bit off a chat. This is one of the things Glenn really likes, finding out the inside info from the locals. Turned out this guy was 85 years old and on his way out for a bit of mountain climbing. He told us he had climbed all of the mountains in the local area, the last one around 2000 metres when he was 83. Quite an amazing bloke. We arrived in Innsbruck early in the afternoon and after checking into our hotel headed straight out ... read more

First of all...where was the time going? I realized what a strange sensation it was to have every day so full and seem to drag on forever, but to have the time passing at a rate much too quick for my liking. I woke up this morning and ate some more bread and jam. Mmm. We ate quickly, and when we were finished, we went to our respective rooms and packed up. I took the easy way down - the lift! There was no way I had the energy to drag my suitcase down the stairs, though I have to say, I don't know how it got so much heavier...I hadn't bought THAT much. Strange. Anyway, I dropped off my bag and boarded the coach. I sat with Sara today, which was great. We talked shop ... read more

Oops...so we have been having a little bit too much fun to update our blog for a while, but here goes! Last time we wrote we were in Barcelona. Since then we have visited Nice (France), Orvieto, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Venice (Italy), Novalja (Croatia), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and are now in St Johann in the Austrian Tirol region. Let me start at the beginning then. Nice was a lovely change from rushing around everywhere. The weather was perfect and we were able to spend a couple of days lazing around on the French Riviera eating baguettes and gelati. We found some amazing markets while lost in the back streets of Nice and just enjoyed wandering. We went to see 'the tower that leans' on our way to Florence, taking the obligatory tourist photos pushing it over. ... read more