Post Card from Bad Hofgastein in July 2010
High Summer in Gastein
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| Prossau - a favourite bike ride away |
With temperatures in the 30's and the bathing lake sitting at around 27 degrees it is well and truly high summer in Gastein. We need plenty of liquid refreshment and early starts. Storm clouds tend to gather late in the day, but hey, who cares.
Mr T is visiting us at the moment so we need to keep busy. We opted to head high to find cool breezes and stunning views.
A 4 hour walk from the top of the Schlossalm cable car took us down to the village via the the Brandner Hochalm. The Hochalm is where they take the animals in summer for a bit of R &R. The cows munch contentedly in the alpine pastures as the occasional walker passes by. The pastures are papered in flowers at this time of year so the cows must find it a welcome change of diet from their winter fare of straw for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Serving our Almdudlers was a pretty girl from near Vienna. On a months working holiday in the Alps, her tasks included milking the goats by hand, making butter and cheese and curing the ham. She was loving it.
Anyway, duly refreshed, we wandered on across the stream finding plenty of shade on the way down. Yours truly took a wrong turn and we missed the steeper, more scenic route but Mr T didn't mind. As we dropped to the valley bottom the temperature rose so we headed for the Berglift Restaurant for a dust buster and and a good lunch. On the way home, there was an outdoor concert playing at the Alpine Arena in town given by an English school from Stoke Mandeville. They struggled with some difficult music, playing baroque outside on a sweltering afternoon can't be easy! Their singing and jazz music was good though. We opted to retire to a nearby cafe at half-time for a necessary coffee. It's a tough life in the mountains.
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| Top of the cable car |
Anyway, duly refreshed, we wandered on across the stream finding plenty of shade on the way down. Yours truly took a wrong turn and we missed the steeper, more scenic route but Mr T didn't mind. As we dropped to the valley bottom the temperature rose so we headed for the Berglift Restaurant for a dust buster and and a good lunch. On the way home, there was an outdoor concert playing at the Alpine Arena in town given by an English school from Stoke Mandeville. They struggled with some difficult music, playing baroque outside on a sweltering afternoon can't be easy! Their singing and jazz music was good though. We opted to retire to a nearby cafe at half-time for a necessary coffee. It's a tough life in the mountains.
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