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!