We awake to rain it's Charlie's 50 th birthday today so we have a big celebration tonight. We actually bought him Mortels UGG boots & Australia boxer shorts ...The washing is done so we are on our way to Innsbruck for the day. We couldn't buy train tickets today as the computer at the station wasn't working properly, so we will chance it..... When we arrive in Innsbruck we are going to the Swarovski crystal shop to look at rings... How exciting ......OMG on t...

I awake at 8.30 am this morning as we went to bed late as we were watching the soccer Euro cup in German( crackup) was an exciting game though. Mark he goes walkabout all the time , I'm sure he's gone to the bakery to get a cappuccino & some pastries for morning tea. The boys are still asleep , the days are flat strap on holidays we walk & walk & walk, it does get tiring especially as here in hopfgarten we are higher up with the altitude so the air is...

Day 2 in Hopgarten Austria - we awake to rain this morning it's 6.45 am & Jeni knocks at the door ( remember the Fogartys are in the house next door) to see if we are going to Salzberg today with the weather, we decide yes we should continue with our plans for the day. We meet at 8.20 am & we all walk to the train station. We have to go from Hopfgarten to Worgl then get on another train from Worgl to Salzberg, all up the trips should take just on 2 hours...

Chapter two - we arrive on time at Nuremberg Germany at the train station we are all starving hungry after travelling nearly 4 hours on the bus, we quickly gather our luggage ( all the boys have been so good pulling their own) we race inside the terminal I'm at the front this time & head straight for the information desk with tickets in hand ( as its a bit hard to read German) gate 9 he says , we look hilarious & people are staring at as everywhere as we ...

Trish son Nici arrives home from school at 2.30 & we all decide to go to their small ton I fun water park / mini golf / little theme park. The 5 boys loved it especially the ice berg which is big lake & the back drop is the maintains, once again amazing , all the boys have worn themselves out after a few hours so we head back home where trish has made potato salad( a little like how our family makes it ) & we have BBQ sausages with it, really nice th...