Best Western Hotel Alte Post St. Anton am Arlberg

... br>Finished training on Friday evening and left Courcheval on Sat morning. 8 hour drive to St Anton. Bad. BUT when we got here they were celebrating St Nicholas Day which involved a "krampus chase" through the town. Look it up on wikipedia and check out the photo - they were pretty scary and basically went around beating all the local kids with sticks (the local kids were out looking for them - it's the austrian idea of fun....).

since then we've had a pretty busy ...

... we are forced to eat the overprocessed, spongey rubbish that is sold in shops and in supermarkets.



I suppose I am going somewhere with all of this - my opinion is that Perth has become 'too big for its boots' in recent years and I believe that this opinion is somewhat justified by the above comparison. Perth's overly expensive prices can probably be attributed to the mining boom which has caused prices to inflate due to the injection of cash into the ...

Das Abreisedatum rückt näher - noch 7 Wochen und dann geht es los.
Einmal um die Welt - oft darüber gesprochen, viel davon geträumt - bald wird es Realität.

Die Reisevorbereitungen werden intensiver, langsam macht man sich Gedanken, was man alles einpacken wird - nur nicht zu viel! Mal sehen ob das mit dem Vorsatz klappt :)
Vandans, Vorarlberg, Austria auszeit2010

It's been a few days since the last update as I have been waiting for something interesting to happen. Since you are taking the time to ready what I have to say, I don't want to waste it detailing the usual self-glorified garbage that a lot of 'travel-bloggers' indulge in... ''Today we went to the supermarket then caught the metro to the park and listened to the birds sing. The weather was warm so I took off my shirt'. This is not ...

L*st night w*s our first night on the town for the se*son *nd it w*s cert*inly * l*sting first impression. We ventured into the vill*ge *t nightf*ll *nd *rrived *t the opening of the Christm*s M*rkets where there w*s * sense of excitement *nd *n *bund*nce of 'Christm*s Cheer'. This could m*inly be *ttributed to the presence of bulk *mounts of Schn*pps, Gluhwein *nd Fruschpunch th*t w*s ...

Travel to Austria from Perth via Tokyo, Milan and Innsbruck is not recommended. To describe this route as a 'milk-run' would be an understatement of epic proportions. I calculated the total travel time to be somewhere in the vicinity of 30hrs (not including time spent in transit) so you can probably understand our relief when we arrived at our final destination in the town of St Anton, Austria.

Our home for the next 4 ...

... Trey and I returned to the top again intent on blasting down the mountain at top speed. We both made it down without using the brakes at all in 5 minutes and some-odd seconds. We both had a blast. Trey video recorded his first descent and he intends on publishing on youtube when we return home.

... the next 4 days so we got some great conditions. After that it was all blue sky hot sunny days.

I used to work in St Anton quite a while back so it's great coming back here each year and seeing a few old friends who've kept doing ski season after ski season.

... mber tõmmatud ja sauna uudistama mindud. Duširuumid olid ka põhimõtteliselt meestel-naistel koos..eraldasid neid ainult sildid Daamide ja Härrade poole kohta. See aga ei tähendanud, et paljad vanamehed ei võinud ka naiste dušipoolelt läbi jalutada. Süüdimatult. Lõpuks selgus ka see, et saunalava oli kõigile ühine ja seal tuleb rätik enda istumise alla panna ning jaladki peavad rätikul olema.. Ehk siis ühel suurel saunalaval olid KÕIK, alates ilastest ...

... finished our walk this morning the weather turned cloudier and cooler. We came back upstairs to our room for a little rest. I can’t believe that I’m still tired, even after being outside and walking around, so I lay down for about an hour. After our little break, we headed out (once more) to tackle the mountain behind the hotel. Just to get to the paths up to the mountain, I was huffing and puffing (have to note here that Bev took advantage of each rest stop ...