The germans and me


Breakfast


our cozy hut


apres ski


train travel through ice, nice...


trentino meal


italian steak


me falling on my bums, which was often


alpine view


gondolas

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Salzburg, Austria

So much have happened in a matter of days! I left Piacenza, traveled to Verona and spent the night there, and thereon headed north towards Trento, great place, i felt completely at home amongst the dolomites, ive always had a thing for the mountain ranges and there is something about them that gives me the sense of peace...

Spent my last day in Italy partying the Italian way, Bonaventura had some of his friends (like 14) over at his place and we spent the night eating some bolognese food and good italian wine, and beer...

from trento, i stopped and visited bolzano and brixen for the day, nice quiet towns with great cathedrals and castles, and the next day went on to Brenner, nothing much there except it is the Italian-Austrian border town...took an austrian train thereon and quickly realized train travel in Austria is EXPENSIVE! im paying something like 16 euros for every 100km i traveled, as compared to the 6 euros/100km in Italy...dont i miss Italy already?

but really, crossing the border through Brenner´s pass actually means entering a whole new world, how can things change so quickly? From latino to caucasian, from cheesy creamy pasta to hot spicy austrian soup, from wine culture to beer culture, from italian plains to the snow-capped austrian alps...so different, and oh so beautiful...!

Brief stopover at Innsbruck and met up with the Bavarian girls (petra, carola and stephie) at Jenbach. We drove up to the sweetest little hut up in the mountain that overlooks the valley, and the view is just so stunning, totally unbelievable, with indescribable feeling...(quoting Jasmine)

The rest of the folks joined us in the evening and there were a dozen of us in total. Met these fantastic friends in new zealand and now we hooked up again for some get-together. Spent the night catching up and you know, drinking...

the next day, what to do in Austria except to ski? we went up the ski field in the gondola and arrived in the winter wonderland. Skiing...you either hate it or you love it, for me, i totally love it but i completely suck...the bruises now resting all over me is a testament of that. But gosh, so much fun...

Left the germans and the bavarians today and continued on my journey while everyone left for home to face reality, got in to Salzburg and right now staying with this great Austrian/German family, who´s been following my journal so far and know everything there is to know bout me...

Will be meeting my favourite composer, Mozart tomorrow at his birth place...cant wait to be totally inspired!

stay tune...



Here´s Lea and Brad again.. :p