Aug 27, 2012 - travel via Austria to Italy (map update)

Day of travel. Amassing scenery perfect for the convertible. Departed Brigachtal from Simonas Aunts place travelling along the northern shoreline of lake Constance. A scenic drive which was just as well as the roads were congested with holiday traffic returning from down south. the small town roads really don't cope with the volume of traffic and caravans, I think it took 2 hours to travel 50km. once in Austria we were moving a lot quicker on the motorway limited to 130km unlike Germany. the Tyrol region was quite spectacular, huge...

Aug 28, 2010 - Austrian Tyrol

Now that's what I'm talking about! Big, huge, massive mountains, scary roads, cute houses, cows up impossibly high hills, chairlifts, waterfalls, nuns running around meadows singing, children dressed in curtains, you name it, Austria's got it. And an awful lot of rain. We retraced Nick's steps from his mis-spent youth ski-ing in these parts years ago, visiting Kitzbuhel, Soll, Kirchsdorf, and St Johan. We had lunch (wow, lunch out, what a treat) in a bar where Nick's grandad had gotten drunk on gluvein and then gone ski-ing down the hill in...