Touring Around

View of Lake Wolfgang

We’ve have a great week here in Abersee (by lake Wolfgang) and tonight we pack up to leave in the morning for Zell am See.  Our tiny apartment has challenged us, and we are a bit remote, so we are looking forward to the campsite where things are walking distance with playgrounds and swimming pools and a WASHING MACHINE!  But that aside we’ve had a brilliant week touring around and visiting some beautiful places.

Cathedral Steeple

St Wolfgang on the opposite side of the lake to us, a quaint village full of shops selling Austrian souvineers (cuckoo clocks galore – some costing over 1000 euro, such intricate craftsmanship), a stunning cathedral and a shop where Amelia found her ‘most favourite dolly ever’.

Strolling through St Wolfgang

Halstatt is a village set into the side of mountains and the edge of lake Hallstattersee, and is a world heritage listed region.  It is the kind of place you see in fairytales with tiny winding walkways in between chocolate box houses with windows and doors that look like they’ve been made for pixies!  We’ve had a photo of this place hung above our bed for five years, so it was pretty surreal being there. 

Picture perfect Halstatt

In the village square, Halstatt

To get to these places we have encountered some tricky terrain.  Mountain roads with steep gradients and even steeper drops from the edge of the road.  On the day we decided to visit all these places the weather was the worst it has been all week, raining and cold, which made it even scarier!  But Maciek has done very well with the driving, after beginning the week with a big black ‘R’ written on his right hand to remind him what side of the road to drive on, to negotiating narrow winding mountain roads where the speed limit is 100k/h (are you kidding!!) and trucks and buses come hurtling towards you.   Well done Maciek!

Thanks for all the comments!  Keep them coming.  It feels like you’re here with us!