Blogs from Altaussee, Styria, Austria, Europe

The next morning the fire was still burning in Hallstat, Madame Sydler said that there was another salt mine at Altaussee, I could take the train and then a bus to get there. I have been listening to a book about salt, in preparation to go to a salt mine, so I decided I did not want to miss the opportunity if I could help it. At the TI they told me that there is not a direct bus, I would have to take a taxi, they have a 'cheap' taxi service in Bad Ausee, 9.50 euro each way. I pondered what to do, I really wanted to go to a salt mine. The next train was a few mins or a couple of hours, I decided to take my time and walk around Bad Goisern, ... read more

Eight and a half hours from Brisbane to Bangkok, five hour stopover, ten and a half hour flight from Bangkok to Wien, one and a half hour stopover, and a fifty minute flight from Wien to Salzburg. I have arrived. Picked up from the airport, I think it was three degrees celcius, quite balmy apparently! The snow is at least a metre deep here in Bad Aussee, Salzkammergut, everything is so crisp and clean and white. I haven't seen snow since I was three or four years old, and I am completely overwhelmed by its beauty. Thomas and his father, Herr Schlacher collected me from the airport and we drove up the alps to their village in an alpine valley. The spruce trees are evergreens but everything is covered in snow. Miss my girls like there ... read more