Hotel Rudolfshof Vitality Kaprun

... hand at an ariel assault course....he came back a shell of his former self after 3 hours in the trees hanging from bits of wire and trying to keep up with 9 year old girls who were more agile than him..for my penance I had to play pitch and putt with Lauren using carved putters and wooden balls..no danger i'll be joining a golf tour anytime soon. 

Definitely worth a visit in winter for you keen boarders out there.

... took us right up through the mountain to the top. An elevator in the middle of the mountain! It was made of such good brass and the engineering was so good, it has ever been serviced. But it also caused the deaths of 12 construction workers when it was made. Or thats what we were told. After the war, the UK and USA blew up most of his buildings in this area but Germany managed to save the Eagle's Nest because it was so amazing and ...

... shop at Eagle's Nest were Italian-made. Bleh! This is getting discouraging.) We walked down to the bus platform; then headed back to the tour office, switching buses again at the bunkers.

Another long, late day, not back at hotel for supper until 8. But we did manage to get the desired picture of the billboard we had seen in the other direction for Rumpfinger. Almost better than Barf-Buffet!

... legs began to whimper and ask whether it wasn't time to gently ride back to base for a nice, cold beer. However, they quickly came to their senses and marshalled themselves for the coming onslaught: a long, hard fire road climb up 9 long switchbacks. Bigger than anything in South East England, for sure. The reward was worth it: a long singletrack descent with lots to offer in ...

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Back up for another run at Flying Gangster without falling off, but by now the weather was closing in and it looked as though I was pushing my luck to try another run.

On the way home, we stopped off and did some shopping. We stayed in and cooked Krapfern, slow-roast tomatoes and roast sausage, which was excellent, and yoghurt for dessert, all locally-produced except the toms.

Another lovely farm-fresh breakfast. We had bought 2-day lift passes for Skiwelt so spent a second consecutive day there. Katie used the lifts and went walking along the top from above Scheffau toward Ellmau then down the funicular railway there.

Keith and I took the lift up from Scheffau. A lovely, blue, sunny day. The nature of the riding took a significant step up today. We practiced ...

They even have a special word for the rain that falls in Salzburg - it's something like Schnurlregen - but I'd have to find my Austrian book to check the spelling. Well, that was my fear for my holiday! And here we were, landed in Salzburg, and guess what? rain!

Luckily by the time we'd waited for the passengers from Glasgow to arrive so that our coach could leave it'd stopped raining - so it couldn't have been that special Salzburg rain that ...

... have a go and came back in excitedly beckoning Lorraine to join him......no you say, she wouldn't....well surprise, surprise she did and had a ball. There were kids being dragged by the current around the outside of the pool, yes it was 'torrent pool'. It was circular with an island in the middle and you get taken away...unless you swim against it and get exercise but what's the fun in that. Scot came back the next night with Dave to join in the fun and he ...

August 26-Monday
We left Kitzbuhel at 8:30. There was a brief stop in Berchtesgarden, in Germany, at 10:00. Up on the side of the mountain, we could see Hitler's Eagle’s Nest. It was rather chilling to see that part of history. The bunker is now a restaurant. Our rest stop overlooked a valley filled with wonderful homes. What a view! Back on the bus and on to Salzburg. Time 10:35.

... a view it was! Kitzbuhel looked just as beautiful from there as it did while we were walking through it. We could see the way the narrow streets wound all through the town. When it was time for our ride to the top, off we went. The ride to the top of the mountain was slightly different than that to the middle station. This time, we stood in a box-type car, apparently used for skiers and their equipment in season. It was quite the ride up, looking down at ...