We hate tours, and we’re not really fans of caves either; their creepy, dark, bat ridden and in my opinion just an accident waiting to happen. So it seemed an odd choice for us to go check out the ice caves in Werfen, Austria. But at 10am we found ourselves being ushered into a large…
Category: Austria
An interesting trip to the mechanics
So as I said in the last post, Pablo’s exhaust had totally cracked due to some industrial rubber band snapping and causing too much pressure on the already rusty exhaust pipe. We killed a day at a small lake near St.Gilgen, this area of Austria – Salzkammergut is their version of the Lake District and…
Pablo the super-van
So we’ve been on the road now for 3 weeks and Pablo’s been an absolute trooper, we were both a little worried with her problems before we left the UK but so far so good, and we’ve taken her up some tough roads through the alps. Sleeping and living wise I think we’ve designed her…
Dipping into Germany’s lakes
The past 2 weeks have felt like a non stop holiday, normally on roadtrips there are days of just driving and no sights en route but there’s been something around every corner and I’ve loved it. We stayed for 2 nights right on the shores of Lake Korbersee, on the 1676m pass, the days were…
The German and Austrian borders
While in the Black Forest we stopped off at Schiltach, it’s said to be one of the prettiest villages in the area and it certainly lived up to it. We arrived early in the morning so it was very peaceful and hardly a sole around, so we took our time, slowly wandering up and down…