Blogs from Melk, Lower Austria, Austria, Europe - page 3

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

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

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

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

Geo: 48.2271, 15.3296Salut tout le monde,Nous avons du beau temps encore et encore (YAAH!), Aujourd'hui 8.8 Celcius vers 9 heures ce matin. Nous avons quand même besoin de bons vêtements.Nous avons visité l'abbaye de Melk. Impressionnant. Nous avons aussi été a St-Pöllen, parce que nous nous sommes perdus et devions aller voir un chateau dans une autre ville. C'était encore de vieilles affaires mais vraiment beau.Pas d'achat extravagant aujourd'hui. On est un peu cassé, mais France regarde les bijoux intensément. On pense avoir trouvé une solution pour la Porsche mais c'est à confirmer (pour répondre à la question de Chantal, malheureusement il ne restait que la blanche pour mon choix).Nous avons rencontré les mascottes de la ville : deux boucs bien pénar... read more