At first it’s quite misty over the lake, in fact it looks like there’s no lake or mountain there but the clouds are soon burnt off revealing the view...
I go shopping for provisions – the essentials – coffee, juice, rolls, cheese etc for breakfast and some beer and wine for us to consume of an evening in the house...
I prepare everything while Anne gets ready and then we have a leisurely breakfast out on the balcony to the sound of Mozart’s string quartets accompanied by the birdsong from the meadow...
After breakfast we drive up to the main town on the Truansee, Gmunden, park over on the East side by the railway station and walk back round the lakeside to the centre of town...
The views are superb – the scenery on this holiday takes some beating. Out on the lake there’s a spectacular fountain which goes off around ten minutes to the hour every hour for about fifteen minutes...
After taking a stroll around the old town, we start out for the castle which is built out on an island on the south side of the town. It’s used as the setting for a famous German soap opera apparently, where it doubles as a Hotel. In reality, it’s still a castle and Germans are often disappointed to find you can’t actually spend the night there...
The castle itself is quite beautiful and the white walls are offset today by the brilliant bright blue sky overhead...
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After a relaxing look around and much photo-taking, we hop on the “fun train” back to town and search for a cake shop which isn’t being overwhelmed by wasps. We find one at the third attempt and I select a raspberry cream cake while Anne goes for the classic Apple Strudel. We decide we’ll split both and each eat half of each cake...
We drive back home and have coffee and cakes on the balcony then spend some time just lazing there reading and drinking some fine Austrian beer. I’m back into the Miles Davis biography I started on our trip to The Mosel in June and the soundtrack is a selection of Mr Davis' music from the jukebox...
Once it starts getting dark, we hop back into the car and drive to a nearby pizza restaurant we saw on our way to Gmunden...I return to my veggie status with minestrone followed by a veggie pizza while Anne has another big salad and a lasagne. Anne’s on the wine again while I revert to diet Coke...
We’re back home by 9:30 – we're never really late night people when on holiday – and Anne tries to find the weather on the TV – I advise it will be scorching – the same as today....
After some more beer and nuts, its off to bed - we’ll be going up a mountain tomorrow I think....
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