We spent an absolutely wonderful week in St. Gilgen, near Saltzburg in Austria. There, we visited with our friend Runi, her son, Falco, and her friend, Heinz. The weather was ideal, our accommodation was a large, 2-room apartment with 2 baths and a big balconly overlooking the lake, Wolfgangsee. We went all around the countryside, which is incredibly beautiful, had lunch at a farm, visited luxurious hotels, took a boat ride on another lake, and had a lot of great food and wine with best friends.
A highlight was a visit to Hallstadt, which Rick Steves has shown on one of his TV shows. There we toured what's probably the oldest salt mine in the world. People were getting salt there thousands of years B.C. The views from the mountain top were unforgettable. I hope there will be photos here.
The last day we went on a great tour of Saltzburg, conducted by Runi. We enjoyed the Mirabell Gardens, strolling the streets -- see the photo of the fountain where people could let their horses swim (in the good old days).
I started writing this in the train station in Munich and am continuing it on the overnight train to Venice. Earlier today, we drove from St. Gilgen to Munich, taking a longer, non-autobahn route to see some of the countryside. It is all as picture-postcard beautiful as it is in Austria, but flatter. The grass here is the most incredible green -- it gives a whole new meaning to "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" or, in this case, the other side of the world.
All the time that we were in St. Gilgen, except for a few brief periods, we were not able to get on the internet with the iBook. We used Runi's computer to take care of some emails, but I wasn't able to do this blog, because I can't type on a German keyboard. Nobody knew how to change it to a different layout (it's a Windows computer).
We spent an absolutely wonderful week in St. Gilgen, near Saltzburg in Austria. There, we visited with our friend Runi, her son, Falco, and her friend, Heinz. The weather was ideal, our accommodation was a large, 2-room apartment with 2 baths and a big balconly overlooking the lake, Wolfgangsee. We went all around the countryside, which is incredibly beautiful, had lunch at a farm, visited luxurious hotels, took a boat ride on another lake, and had a lot of great food and wine with best friends.
A highlight was a visit to Hallstadt, which Rick Steves has shown on one of his TV shows. There we toured what's probably the oldest salt mine in the world. People were getting salt there thousands of years B.C. The views from the mountain top were unforgettable. I hope there will be photos here.
The last day we went on a great tour of Saltzburg, conducted by Runi. We enjoyed the Mirabell Gardens, strolling the streets -- see the photo of the fountain where people could let their horses swim (in the good old days).
I started writing this in the train station in Munich and am continuing it on the overnight train to Venice. Earlier today, we drove from St. Gilgen to Munich, taking a longer, non-autobahn route to see some of the countryside. It is all as picture-postcard beautiful as it is in Austria, but flatter. The grass here is the most incredible green -- it gives a whole new meaning to "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" or, in this case, the other side of the world.
All the time that we were in St. Gilgen, except for a few brief periods, we were not able to get on the internet with the iBook. We used Runi's computer to take care of some emails, but I wasn't able to do this blog, because I can't type on a German keyboard. Nobody knew how to change it to a different layout (it's a Windows computer).
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