Our Travels

Day 1. We left our dear friends place in the morning and made headway for Obereggen on Saturday morning. The drive from Milan is just magnificent through North Italy. The flat becomes mountains blanketed by terraces of grapevines! I was a passenger in between snoozing I marvelled at the grape growers expertise in traversing the sloped vineyards. Rivers run through vineyards as well as train tracks as a train chugs along through the perfectly lines. And we are on a road that cuts right through this work of art. We ascend higher and higher into the mountains and it's still very green. I'm inwardly worried that there may not be any snow for us to ski on and we were all so looking forward to the snow. We drive through Bonzano and it is warm and the sunshine hitting the green trees is just beautiful. As we ascend the winding road it's still green much to our pleasure coming from the desert however at this moment we'd like white snow! It is of course very late in the season...

Here we are in Austria once more. This time we have with us hubby's parents. We landed in Munich rented a car and made our way to Austria to visit family. We're having grand ol' time site seeing. Yesterday we went to Flachau to try put my son on skis. He was not keen at first but then liked it after a bit. I need to sign him up for lessons so he can learn early. I on the other hand got on skis after about 10 years and managed to stay upright. It was awesome but kept on the beginners slope. I itched to go higher but thought better of it! It was a good thrill and would love to go skiing again some time. After having lunch there we went to Salzburg and had a good look around before we headed home. The day before we went to the Bad Ischl thermal pools and it was beautiful swimming while looking at the snow capped mountains. Just gorgeous. Today was window shopping day while the boys went to the Red Bull hangar tomorrow relaxing day.