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27th / 28th June291km
Amazing thunderstorm in the night, went on for hours, the sky constantly alight with lightening, then the rain started and it didn't stop. Nothing worse than trying to pack up the van in the rain with 2 people & a dog inside. Said fair well to our Russian & Australian neighbours and headed out of Italy towards Austria. Took the motorway as the rain but the final nail in the coffin of the prospect of going over the mountains….Sarah had been worrying about it anyway! Still got fabulous views though & experienced the tunnels under the mountains, some 6km or more long. Stopped at the border to buy our 'Autobahnvignet' a kind of road tax for using Austrian motorways. You can get heavily fined if you don't display one. I had practised my lines for miles before so that I could ask for it in German…..(Girl behind the counter smiled sweetly and asked me in English if I wanted the 10 day tourist pass).Our campsite was in the Karnten region just outside Spittal, beautiful site right on the edge of a lake surrounded by pine forests an Austrian mountains ( got a welcoming committee of elderly 'fraus' all with their hands on their hips discussing the strange couple with the boxer that had just arrived). The site owner was lovely but they were as bad as the Gestapo! We couldn't move without them curtain twitching. The 3 of us headed off to the village to find food & beer & found a lovely place where the locals started singing impromptu German beer songs.
Bad weather again so we decided to stay another day. Got a hangover from too much German beer swilled down with a local liquor that tastes like covonia balsam (Sarah's favourite cough medicine).
Drums Dog blog.
They made me lie down under the table while they ate Schnitzel & Sauerkraut… don't know what that is but it smelled good, and there isn't a McDonalds for miles! There is a circus next door to the campsite & I can smell the camels breath from here…or maybe it's the after effects of the sauerkraut… the silver box is a very small space when you've got 2 b****es farting all night. Mine were particularly meaty that night & it wasn't a good mix.
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