Blogs from Tyrol, Austria, Europe - page 36

Loved Munich. After our last post we did a little shopping at H & M. My favorite store. After that we hit up a local beerhall with many of our friends. Finished nearly 3 liters of beer. 2 for Lou. Tried to keep up with the boys. Then caught the last train back to the hotel and completly crashed. In the morning we stopped at a concentration camp. It was incredibly moving. The worst part was the gas chamber and we stopped in the church to pray. That was by far my favorite part. It was filled with sunflowers. Never been in such an emotional church. After that we made our way into Austria. We stopped in Innsbruck where they had the winter olympics. Sampled some local schnaps and went to the crystal show room. It ... read more

With my job the way it is, I was fortunate enough to have Monday to Friday off during one week in late July. My wife (having an actual job) had to work all week, so instead of staying around cooking and cleaning like a good husband should have done, I chose the road all-to-often travelled...I bolted for the hills...or Alps. Between playing my guitar and watching movies (whilst at work), I found time to surf the internet and found a great website for bed and breakfasts in the Tirol region of Austria. Finally settling upon the Alpbachtal and Tiroler Seenland, I chose a small little village amidst lakes, forests, bike trails, and beautiful mountains. The paradise...Kramsach, Austria. I spent 4 nights doing nothing but riding my bike around the village and surrounding hamlets (including to lunch ... read more

Before we left Munich for good and headed off in the direction of Vienna and Prague we wanted to get a trip into Innsbruck and the famous Neuschwanstein Castle, which was effectively in the other direction (well due south from Munich as opposed to East) so we decided to take a day trip. As you might recall from our recent blog, Vicki (aka The Navman Saleswoman) had been trying to persuade us to buy our very own male or female voice from the box that would effortlessly guide us along the remainder of our trip without any need for poor old Rach to have her head in the map whilst I am enjoying the scenery. Would we be convinced that Sat Nav was all she was making it out to be. Well we decided to take ... read more

Well all I can say is man it is georgeous here. Everywhere u look is mountains. Serious walk out of our hostel and we re surrounded. So as soon as me and Jordan got off the train we were like we are hiking that biatch. No guide no map just us and my compass. So we took off and finally found some trails. They dont go straight up but side to side. Along the way we saw everything from giant slugs to dark caves. Really cool. So after about 4 hours we were as high up the mountain as we could get without leaving the trail or taking a helicoptor or something ( about 1600m). So we saw this glacier up the mountain. No joke it looked so freaking close so we decided to hike it ... read more

Hi guys, Been in Austria for about 4 days now,staying in a village called Zell am Ziller. We attempted to head up one of the mountains towards Krimml waterfalls but Fred decided half way up the mountain that he didn't want to go any higher. Instead of throwing his toys out of the pram he spat all the oil all over the engine bay. After that he made some very strange noises so he free wheeled back down again. We didn't want to go anyway!!! We're currently waiting for a bus to go back down another mountain, we've just been up to the Hintertux Glacier which is 3250m high. Saw tonnes and tonnes of snow and of course had another snowball fight. There were loads of skiers and boarders.........a strange thing to see in July. If ... read more