Hiking in the Mountains

One of Maciek's fav's

Lunch at 1500m



Shoulders Daddy Shoulders!



After a confusing start to the day (I slept in but dreamt I was awake getting ready – you know those ones?, Noah had to be changed twice for reasons we won’t go into, we weren’t sure what we were doing as our plans for the week had been thrown off by the weather, Maciek decided he needed to go back to sleep at 8.30 while I took the kids for a walk in the woods and he dreamt he was awake getting ready??), we were finally in the car on our way back to Bad Ischl, dressed for sunshine and a morning of wandering around the town, when we decided the weather was nice and we should do the mountain hike we planned on doing yesterday but didn’t because it was raining and overcast and freezing cold!  So we turned back, got changed, and we were off again – to Gosau.  A cable car took us up to 1500m where we could hire a mountain stroller for Noah for free and we were ‘off road’ in 10 degrees!  The views up there were stunning and I got a good workout especially pushing the stroller, some parts were very steep!  We stopped at a hut for lunch (not too impressed with Austrian cuisine so far we have to say!) and then made our way back.  Amelia loved the buttercups and Noah enjoyed mooing at all the cows.  But I didn’t anticipate that walking up the steep bits would mean walking down the steep bits, this time with Amelia in the stroller as her legs were sore and her ‘bones were collapsing’!  This could have been a disaster if it weren’t for Maciek telling me to use the brake (it’s got a brake on it like a mountain bike!)  I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t think I would have thought of this on my own!

From there we drove to Altmunster, another village on Lake Traunsee, with stunning rugged mountains surrounding it.  The kids played on the playground on the lake edge while we ate ice-cream and dipped our feet in the lake (it was now 28 degrees).

Milly is loving the flying foxes

Nice to get our feet wet

From hiking in 10 degrees in fleeces, wooly hats and raincoats on top of a mountain, to eating ice-cream and splashing around in a crystal clear lake in 28 degrees!  What a fab day!