Home again after a great week in Austria. The weather was fantastic and so was the scenery. We enjoyed the mountains and views. We have left a little piece of our heart in Austria.

I have been a little lazy with the blog while on holiday so here is an update....mainly for myself so I can look back in a year or two and read about what we did while in Austria......

So Tuesday we relaxed A LOT!! :-) 

We drove to Zell am See but there were just too many people at the lake so we couldn´t get parked, so we just enjoyed the views from the car. 

 We decided to head back to Rauris to get ourselves an ice cream and play a little mini golf.

We had fun but it was just too hot so we cut the mini golf game short!

In the evening it was out to dinner to try another local restaurant. It was sooo cheap to eat out there! (At least compared to Denmark!) 

Wednesday we decided to go away for the day, so we drove for about an hour northwards and went to see The Eagles Nest which was Hilters summer residence. What an amazing place!! To think that someone went to all the trouble to build such a place as a gift to Hilter just blows my mind! 

The views were spectacular!

To get up to the residence you had to walk through a long tunnel and then up in an elevator. This was the evlvator. Kristian managed to get a bit of a picture of it......

It was a little weird to be in a place were you knew Hilter had spent some time. That such an evil man got to enjoy such beautiful nature and surroundings seemed so unfair. It also made me think of the power of one man. I wondered about how much good he could have done in the world if he had chosen differently. I did a lot of wondering as I wandered about on top of that mountain.

We ate lunch at the restaurant and then we headed down into Salzburg to enjoy the last part of the day there.

Thursday was another relaxing day. A short walk to town to visit some of the gifts shops made me very happy!. Kristian went a walk in the nature with his camera.

 We also spent a lot of time playing Scrabble! My mother-in-law is sooo good at it. We had to play Danish words so it was good for building up my vocabulary. I learned 3 new Danish words! 

Friday I decided I wanted to spend at home just reading and relaxing. Kristian and his mum fancied going a short drive to the end of the valley to explore the nature down there. The kids wanted to stay at home with me and relax. It was a lovely day.

Friday evening we were out eating again! It was after all, our last evening so we wanted to live it up! After a delicious meal it was home to pack and get ready for the long journey home. 

We left Saturday morning at 10am. The weather was a little too hot, most of the day it was 38 degrees as we drove up through Germany. We were thankful for our air con! It was on full blast the whole day. Kristian did a great job driving us home. We arrived home at 4am in the morning at my mother-in-laws house. By this stage we all were so tired so we camped down at Kristian´s mum´s house to sleep for a few hours. After a few hours sleep and a bite to eat, we were on the road home to ourselves.

It was lovely to come home again. Lovely to see Shadow and off course our neighbour!  Out is good but home is best! 

Austria....

We are having a fantastic time in Austria. We left Denmark Friday morning and travelled down through Germany. We had a great trip, no traffic jams, everything went like clock work. We spent the night in Kassels.

Saturday morning we left Kassels and hoped to be in Austria by 6pm. That did not happen. There were soooo many traffic jams through out Germany, so we arrived 2 hours after we planned, at 8pm. We were thankful when we finally got the keys to the apartment and we could get in and settled.

The apartment is wonderful......

Sunday we relaxed and then went to explore the town of Rauris. We decided we would explore the mountain close to us and so we took the ski lift up to the top - a height of  approx. 1750m. 

 I will admit I was a bit scared about going up in the ski lift. I am not great with heights! But it went ok!

We ate lunch at the top of the mountain and late afternoon we returned to the apartment were we all just relaxed, each in our own way.

 Sunday evening, Leah, Kristian and I went a walk. It was a beautiful evening. 

Today we wondered what we should do. The kids wanted to stay at home to hang out in the apartment, go to the pool and just relax. Us oldies wanted to go out and explore so that´s what we did. We decided to head over the biggest mountain in Austria...Grossgluckner. It was amazing.

When we returned we headed out to eat dinner together. A really great day!

Road trip....

A while ago we (Laura, Mia, Leah and I) had an idea to do a girly road trip. We had just seen the film Wild Hogs and thought it would be fun to just hit the road, like the men in the film, and have a few days away together. So Tuesday morning at 7am we were up and ready to leave. 

I tried to look like Woody from the film. We had 37km to bike to our bed and breakfast for the evening. We actually biked a little more than that as the B&B was 3km outside th e town. We biked at least 46km that first day. What an achievement for us, considering none of us were in shape!

 We followed route 33 which took us through some wonderful nature areas. We went from forest to wide open fields. It was beautiful although the path through the forest was hard as there were a lot of hills which felt like mountains!

Our bed and breakfast place was soooo cosy. We loved it.

 I have never been soooo glad to see a bed. My legs ached, my arms and hands too. The worse however was my bum!! 

All us girls piled into bed and relaxed. I nodded off for an hour.

After a few hours rest we biked it back into town and found a wonderful restaurant to eat at. The food was amazing and not a bad price! The restaurant was right on the beach!

After dinner we had a walk along the beach and then sat in the sand dunes and just enjoyed the beautiful weather and the sound and smell of the sea.

We laughed sooo much through out the whole trip! 

 We had a great nights sleep and the next morning a wonderful breakfast was served for us on the top of the cliff overlooking the sea. 

We spent the morning being cosy, playing cards and talking. Then it was off on our bikes again. We biked a few more kilometers down the road and found a wonderful beach were we settled for the afternoon

We cheated and took the train home. We just couldn´t face another long bike ride!

We decided to end the trip by going to one of my favourite restaurants - The Mexican. We were all in the mood for Mexican food. 

We then biked the last 10km back home where Kristian was waiting to welcome us.

A really great road tirp with 3 fantastic people. We talked, we laughed, we dreamed and we just had a really great time together. Another tradition has been started!! 

Tomorrow we head of to Austria. Kristian stops work today, this evening we pack the car and tomorrow we head off. We are so looking forward to the break.

While we are gone an American family, who will be visiting Laura, will be staying in our home. They will look after Shadow and the place for us.