We decided yesterday to do a mountain Walk today. unsurprisingly for us! When we were choosing our accommodation here we chose a pension that offered a discount card for using the chair lifts and post buses; so when Colin suggested we might've walked up for 4 hours I refused, so we came up on the bubble. We were going to go up on the new cabin but this morning there was an Austrian hike accompanied by musicians; so when we got to the lift it was jam packed ful...

Arrived in Zell Am See after a long and hot ride. It wasn't long after leaving Vienna that we started to ride alongside forests and glimmering lakes with the majestic mountains rising high in front of us. The lakes and rivers we rode alongside were glacier clear and sparkling cold. We are always amazed by the mountain scenery and views in the summer time; the lush green grass of the low alpine meadows slowly turning to jagged mountain faces. The sky always seems...

Well Vienna is just as I expected and 1 day is certainly not enough time to see everything.We spent the afternoon sightseeing and watching people posing in front of a statue of Mozart which was very funny.We found ourselves besides the main cathedral and a lady began talking to us. The cathedral is under going renovations and there were lots of photo's depicting this along with photo's of 1945. The lady explained that 2 days before the end of the war German and...

Lake Balaton is lovely! It is very quiet and serene where we are staying and reminds me of Lake Garda; I'm sure if we went further around the lake we would find more tourists and bustling places but it suits us just fine here, a good chilling out place to stay and relax. We are spending our time sunbathing and going for short walks around the local village and parks. We found why looks like another traditional market area at the other end of the village near...

What a palaver leaving the hotel this morning! I wrote in my blog yesterday about the inefficiency of the hotel key cards, well this morning they reduced Colin to boiling point! We once again took the stairs for breakfast and struggled to gain entry back into our room: so we were prepared for problems trying to get down to the garage with a pile of bags and this proved correct. Our key card would only let us go down to the Reception so we checked out and also p...