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| Ice cream in Kitz |
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| View from the top |
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| On the gondola |
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| Posing for a pic in Kitz |
After Italy mum had one week left so we had every afternoon booked with something to do. One afternoon we drove to a
Wildlife park just passed Kitzbuhel with deer roaming around free, and a few other animals including some tiny baby goats! Very cute! Never sure what to wear as the weather kept changing during that week and even though it was sunny when we arrived the clouds quickly came in and brought the rain with them, and mum, ever worried about her hair, had no choice but to put on Amelia’s wooly cream hat with a pom pom on the top, which kept us laughing on our way around! Very stylish mum! Wooly ‘ats! Brilliant!
The park is set in stunning scenery, as is everything here, you can’t really escape it, and being able to get so close to deer is amazing, although a little unnerving being not quite sure what they are capable of with those huge velvet antlers! Amelia was so delighted to see a real life ‘Bambi’ (is that the actual Bambi? she asked!) and afterwards we sat in a gorgeous chalet decked out in really naff but pretty things, very kitsch Austrian style stuff like homecrafted stuffed hearts in pink and red polka dotted fabrics hanging from tree branches, big white candle lanterns on the window sills, and in contrast stuffed animals and various small animal skulls staring out from the walls! May not sound it but it was lovely and cosy especially since the rain was really pelting outside and we enjoyed hot chocolates with our last 10 euro!
Another afternoon was spent wandering around Kitzbuhel and enjoying a coffee and delicious Erdbeereschnitte (strawberry cream slice) and wandering around buying more souvineers, lighting a candle in the church, and taking a ride up on the gondola to the top of the ‘Kitzbuhel
Horn’ with breathtaking views (and breathtaking walking up and up for mum!) “You forget I’m in my 50’s!” says mum! (No I don’t, I think, I’m just cruel!)
We finished that day with an evening meal at the Grander
Schupf where I have a pearler of a pic of mum coming down the slide to the loos, but if I included that in the post she’d have to change her identity, and then she’d kill me! My friends had planned a girly evening out but I said I couldn’t make it as mum was here and it would be her second last night, so it was a nice surprise that they’d chosen the same restaurant as us and so I was able to have a quick drink and a catch up with them all afterall! Not only that Maciek bumped into a couple of colleagues from his winter job as a Lederhosen wearing non-German speaking waiter in the hotel! And so joined them for a schnapps and chat and surprisingly was able to converse in German much more than he could over the winter! Apart from us and them there were only two other tables occupied! Amazing who you run into at a quiet restaurant on the top of a mountain!
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| Where's Bambi? |
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| Oh deer, that's a bit close |
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| What a sweet old dear! |
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| So the map says we keep following this path...... |
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| Nice hat mum! |
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| Bit of a rest Nana? |
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| Church in Kitz |
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| Lovely mountain water |
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| The town of St Johann from the top |
After Italy mum had one week left so we had every afternoon booked with something to do. One afternoon we drove to a Wildlife park just passed Kitzbuhel with deer roaming around free, and a few other animals including some tiny baby goats! Very cute! Never sure what to wear as the weather kept changing during that week and even though it was sunny when we arrived the clouds quickly came in and brought the rain with them, and mum, ever worried about her hair, had no choice but to put on Amelia’s wooly cream hat with a pom pom on the top, which kept us laughing on our way around! Very stylish mum! Wooly ‘ats! Brilliant!
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