Boat garages

We saw these on a couple of the alpine lakes we visited. Rather than take the boats up out of water for storage they are kept in these buildings to protect them from the heavy snows of winter. Most structures have a sling that the boat can be raised up on so that it's out of the water when the lake freezes.

We get into a few scrapes but we take it with a grain of salt

May 4th 2018
Today would be one of the “less good” days of the trip. It's not that we had a bad time. Au contraire. It was just that a couple of annoying issues happened along the way. In the end things righted themselves but they put a damper on our day. The day started off with the clanging of the bell in the tiny village church at sunrise. I apparently fell back asleep rather quickly because we didn ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more

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