Aragia Klagenfurt

Liebe Menschen,
es ist 5.45 in der Früh und ich bin bereits geduscht, angezogen und "auf dem Sprung". Das heißt... Es geht jetzt bald los...
Fahre jetzt nach Wien, am Abend nach München, und von da geht morgen früh unser Flieger. Erste Station in Südamerika ist dann San Jose, von wo ich mich hoffentlich übermorgen Abend wieder melde.
Bis dahin: Keep on rockin´
Denise

... took an 8-mile hike around Lake Bled and up to the Vintgar Gorge. Imagine if you will (or just look at our pictures) a clear emerald lake with a small island housing an old church/monastery with bells ringing throughout the day; on one shore a castle sits on a cliff overlooking the lake; and the Julian Alps, draped in early winter snow, sit majestically behind the hamlet ...

Xin chào Freunde

Es ist wieder mal soweit.
Das Fernweh hat Überhand genommen
und zieht uns in einer Woche für einen Kurztrip nach Vietnam.

Genauer gesagt nach Nord-Vietnam, um ein bisschen mehr über die asiatische Kultur zu lernen,
vor allem übers Essen.
Die Kletterer unter ...

... ingredients and cooked a beef stew to make me feel better. Oh I did go and get my stiches taken out of my head with no problems looks like everything is healing ok but still feel sick and stuff all the bloody time.

Friday

Well today was much better it was sunny and we got up and wrapped up warm as its like a sunny autumn day in england. There was a dali exhibition on that Ian wanted to go and see so we walked along the side of the lake ...

... was just as we pulled up outside of it. Croatia is an amazing country very beautiful and the people that we have met have been amazing but go we have to. Got our train tickets to Slovenia we are not staying in the capital Ljubljana as we think it might be a little too busy but we have to get the train there and then get another train to Bled which is a lake near the border of Austria.

We got to the train ...

... you could really just sit there all day and enjoy it.

We got to the end of the walkways and found a large waterfall which we had to go downstairs to view. It was pretty but I think the gorge itself was more beautiful.

As I said, we could have sat there all day but it was about 5pm by now and the last thing I wanted was to get stuck in the middle of the Slovenian countryside with a broken chain after dark, so we walked back to the entrance and collected our bikes for the ...

... was all very picturesque. We found a great free camping spot right outside of the campground! Originally we were headed to the campground but saw a few campervans parked outside in the parking lot-we were still able to walk to the toilets and use them so we saved on a night's camping. After driving back up to the grocery store to find dinner for the night, we found that it had already shut. Next ...

... enjoyed the Time in this City, on this Lake and in the Hotel Plattenwirt. I certainly will go there again next year, to the family in the Hotel, to the nice people of carinthia and the relaxing atmosphere of the lake. Thank you I hope you enjoyed my story, I never made any photos, so I'm sorry, that I cant show you this beautiful city, but probably I will search some phots from the Net and load it up in the next days. Regards Klaus

We left Klagenfurt on foot in the hopes of getting to the "official" Jacobsweg. We started late, tried to go too far and basically ran out of gas long before the "planned" stop point. BUT we are on our way and had a perfect begining to improve from. We hiked 25.7 Km and managed an altitude gain and ...

... folk of the world you told no lies, the place is simply stunning dahhhhhhlings. The town itself is nothing amazing, it's cute but we've seen cuter (we're so worldly now). What makes this place amazing is the lake, my god it's emerald green and as clear as a mountain spring. It's certainly no wonder that it's a UN listed heritage site and also the summer playground of Slovenia's rich and famous (and the obligatory backpackers). We spent a few days walking around ...