Lost in Austria

Well, come on, it's not like I speak the language or anything (although I am learning - again)

You left us soundly asleep having arrived at our destination in Austria. Curiously enough, we awoke. I've noticed that happens every day and I'm not sure, some days, if I approve. Anyway, we awoke, pulled back the curtains and Fuck me! (acceptances to the usual e-mail address) there were HUGE mountains. Not small mountains or medium sized mountains but HUGE mountains. Look - it's massive! Everywhere you looked there were these mountains soaring up into the sky. (I should point out that my experience with HUGE mountains isn't that vast). It was amazing. And the air was crisp, clear and clean. Today was going to be a day we had a chance to play at being tourists but first we had breakfast (ok, we got up and showered and dressed. Do I have to tell you everything?) and then went for a walk with the dog. We even took some people too but they were well behaved so we allowed them to stay off the lead. There was alot to see and take pictures of, so I did. Hey, you know me, snap happy :-) This is the local stream (for local people) and the dog. We had to make him go in the water because he was smelly. A smelly dog. A very smelly dog who likes to sit on anyone called Antje and she wasn't impressed when people said "phew, you smell" to her. We walked on and saw, can you guess? Mountains! I took more postcard style pictures, drifted into artistic pictures and then got told off for not keeping up! Have these women got no soul?
I could fill this blog just with photographs of the walk. Austria is a very picturesque place to be - a dangerous place to be if you're armed with a camera and have some time on your hands. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to take my time and instead had to hurry up. I refused to sulk though for two reasons; firstly it was a glorious day and the scenery was wonderful and secondly because I spotted some of the coolest scaffolding ever down a side street - wooden! I suppose it makes sense when you're surrounded by trees but you don't expect to see it.
We ambled back to the guesthouse where everyone was trying to decide what to do for the day; shopping, sight seeing and in our case, going to scale a mountain! We chose to undertake this herculean task not with climbing gear and ropes but with the aid of a cable car. We decided to scale the mountain that squats between Austria and Germany. In fact, the border is the top of the mountain and we had a cunning plan; we were going to infiltrate from one country to the other without telling anyone! We'd be criminals, illegal immigrants on the run from the law and forced to live a rough and ready existence in the Alps before we died in a blaze of televised gunfire when they finally hunted us down. Unfortunately both Austria and Germany are in the EU so there are no border controls :-( Our crossing would not be very exciting at all. But the trip is another story (which will have to wait for later as I have used up my lunch hour - I also ate some food which has a tendancy to put a dent in how fast I type. Sorry). Tune in for another exciting blog entry soon, playing at a browser near you!