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Travel Blogs from Walchsee
Fraueninsel and Family
... in the middle of the Chiemsee. I'm obsessed with Christmas markets. I can't get enough of them (and am even going to another one tonight). It had always been a wish of mine to visit the Chiemsee in winter time because I always go there in the summer time and swim in the lake. It looked as I had always pictured it as we took the ferry to the island with the Alps towering over the water covered in snow. On the lake there is also the ...
Missed it.
... usually wins). tracked down Billy Glasson for the " late mail" and a "sure thing" .....had my heart pound as I put my $5 each way on some horse that is still running.....or by now pulling a milk cart somewhere....snuck the TV into class so 9.5B can watch it with me ( all promising not to tell anyone) ....and we MISSED IT.....Alex rang us at 1.30 am (I don't think she has quite worked out the Austrian....Australian time difference yet) .....and she was a BIG help.....she had ...
Not The Top Of The World
... on their slopes......wooden homesteads painted in the colours you would expect in Austria...like buttercup yellow and baby blue...if it was not all real you would have thought Hollywood had created a very cliched film set....it was so typical Austrian it looked like a postcard.....you expected Sister Maria and the Von Trapp family to come running over one of the hills...when we got to Zell Am See I must admit we were somewhat disappointed....the lake ...
Forest thaw
... 3 miles uphill is no mean feat and all of us arrived at the mountain farm station in good spirits and not too clapped out. The descent could have proved to be more than challenging, pretty much direct downhill through the forest, but the forest cover meant there was no ice to worry us and the descent was easy. We reached the valley bottom, lakeside, after stunning alpine views all the way down.
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Nordic Walking
... the golf course and valley bottom, back to the hotel. This turned out to be a jolly 2 hours' stroll, in the company of 3 other German/Austrians (?). I became the token English translator. My German was never my forté (!) and time and retirement have merely enhanced my amnesia. I picked up the gist of his instructions and passed them on in pidgeon Germanic English.
It was a very pleasant walk nonetheless, in occasional sunshine, on ...
Other places to stay in Walchsee
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Hotel Schick
Johannesstrasse 1, Walchsee | 4 star hotelfrom $115 -
Ferienclub Bellevue am See
Johannesstrasse 20, Walchsee | 4 star hotel -
Panorama
Kranzach 20 A, Walchsee | 4 star hotelfrom $195 -
Die Verwoehnhotels
Kranzach 20, Walchsee | Hotel -
Gastehaus Seerose
Kalvarienweg 5, Walchsee | 3 star hotel -
Pension Schmid
Habichen 60 , Walchsee | Hotel
