It was a beautiful drive through the Austrian Alps from Lunz am See to South Tyrol with some adventures on the way. Driving up and down different passes is always a challenge with our weight of 5.3 tonnes and we wish we would have a retarder for downhill braking, but driving with 4×4 and low …
We finally left Vienna and are on the way to South Tyrol now. We took the route through the Alps and found a little hike at the south of the Hochkar, where you can walk up a canyon which has a big surprise at the top! First you cross the river Salza on a suspension …
We always tell ourselves we go to the Pogusch for the nice hikes there, but the truth is, we go there for the fantastic restaurant. We had arrived in the evening and had spent the night at the parking along the street (47.529583, 15.333602) which was peaceful during the night. We always go on a …
We passed the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, before we reached Knittelfeld, where we spotted two towers standing out of the hill behind the town. It looked like a good hiking destination, so we searched for a parking and started to walk. From the outskirts of Knittelfeld (47.218293, 14.824699), a path flanked by chestnut trees …
We headed in direction of Bad St. Leonhard, where we had arranged an appointment with our friend Klaus to pick up some of his excellent Tuscany olive oil “Fabiani di Sotto”. He showed us his historic cinema called “Lichtspieltheater”, which he had bought years ago. It was opened in 1953 and closed in 1970, and had …
Crossing Italy, we stopped at Borghetto, which is a lovely place near Verona. It was the second time we went there, but again we were not lucky with the weather. On our first visit (post from April 2018), we had stopped for the night while it was raining heavily. This time it was not so …
Crossing the Alps from Briançon in France to Turin in Italy, we found a nice hike in Foresto. The weather was still not good but we made the best out of it. We had found a parking at park4night where a hike of 2,5 hours was suggested. But nobody had mentioned that entering the little …
On the way back home, we crossed France from Biarritz at the Atlantic coast to Briançon in the Alpes but made a couple of stops where we discovered for example Uzés, a lovely town and saw beautiful landscapes on the way. Typical France: alleys of sycamores We had stopped at Toulouse and Roquefort (earlier posts) …
