Thursday 18/12/08
Awoken at 6 by a very noisy snow plow – looked out to see it had snowed close to 6 inches overnight and the entire car park was covered, however the Snow Plow man was roaring around on his tractor and blade cleaning it all up. So up we got and moved the van for him, then had brekky and at 9am sharp off we went on the Salt mine tour. Very interesting – this mine dates back to the time 500ish BC when the Celts used to mine by pick and shovel. We went along in a small train for a distance and then walked about 1.5 km through tunnels and mine shafts. Crossed the German border, downs some steep wooden slides, and even a boat ride acoss a lake in the middle of the mine, back into Austria again and back into daylight eventually. Had some lunch and then we headed on towards Salzburg. Continued snowing all day, and we found a great spot to spend the night in an empty Supermaket car park, but didn’t realise that the local hoons use it for a speed way track after a snowfall and after an hour of them roaring around sideways we moved on and ended up staying overnight in a Guesthof Parking Platz.
Awoken at 6 by a very noisy snow plow – looked out to see it had snowed close to 6 inches overnight and the entire car park was covered, however the Snow Plow man was roaring around on his tractor and blade cleaning it all up. So up we got and moved the van for him, then had brekky and at 9am sharp off we went on the Salt mine tour. Very interesting – this mine dates back to the time 500ish BC when the Celts used to mine by pick and shovel. We went along in a small train for a distance and then walked about 1.5 km through tunnels and mine shafts. Crossed the German border, downs some steep wooden slides, and even a boat ride acoss a lake in the middle of the mine, back into Austria again and back into daylight eventually. Had some lunch and then we headed on towards Salzburg. Continued snowing all day, and we found a great spot to spend the night in an empty Supermaket car park, but didn’t realise that the local hoons use it for a speed way track after a snowfall and after an hour of them roaring around sideways we moved on and ended up staying overnight in a Guesthof Parking Platz.
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Wednesday 17/12/08
Very interesting experience going through the crystal interactive ‘museum’, quite out of this world entering through a green goblin, and ending up at the Swarovski shop – WOW! What an assortment of glass and crystal for sale. Then onto Kitsbuhel. The scenery is breathtaking, and as we wound our way through the countryside each bend seem to offer up more little villages with snow capped rooves and pristine untouched hillsides all.JPG)
covered in a dense blanket of snow. Arrived at Kitsbuhel, a gorgious little village in Austria. We parked about 500 m from the town centre, after trying to drive through town and finding the lanes getting narrower and narrower until I had to turn off and drive throught the local park along the bike lane to get back on track – received a few glares over that one. This village was our first real experience of a medieval village complete with cobblestone roads and narrow little archways. Eventually found an internet café and forget our blog sight so no use, so checked our emails and had a coffee, then eventually back to van, and off we went to spend the night at the Saltzvelten (Salzburg Salt mines) car park, Hellein. It was gently snowing by the time we finished T and all fell into bed rather early..JPG)
Very interesting experience going through the crystal interactive ‘museum’, quite out of this world entering through a green goblin, and ending up at the Swarovski shop – WOW! What an assortment of glass and crystal for sale. Then onto Kitsbuhel. The scenery is breathtaking, and as we wound our way through the countryside each bend seem to offer up more little villages with snow capped rooves and pristine untouched hillsides all
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covered in a dense blanket of snow. Arrived at Kitsbuhel, a gorgious little village in Austria. We parked about 500 m from the town centre, after trying to drive through town and finding the lanes getting narrower and narrower until I had to turn off and drive throught the local park along the bike lane to get back on track – received a few glares over that one. This village was our first real experience of a medieval village complete with cobblestone roads and narrow little archways. Eventually found an internet café and forget our blog sight so no use, so checked our emails and had a coffee, then eventually back to van, and off we went to spend the night at the Saltzvelten (Salzburg Salt mines) car park, Hellein. It was gently snowing by the time we finished T and all fell into bed rather early..JPG)
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