Friday 17 June
This morning we were at the Information Centre at Naz bright and early and the lady there, kindly printed out directions for us on Google Maps plus we bought a map of Northern Italy to help with the main roads.
As my toe was feeling much better, I did the driving today and Derek navigated. I thought driving the Brenner Pass rather than being a passenger might be less scary. It wasn't. Anyway, once we got past Innsbruck it was much better and I did enjoy the drive.
We only got slightly lost once and that was not really our fault as the road we were supposed to take to Oberburg was closed for roadworks and we couldn't figure out how to get back to where we needed to be. However, a friendly shopkeeper put us on the right track and away we went.
The B&B, which was about 5 minutes drive out of Oberburg was delightful. It is run by Andreas and Rahel Bracher with their toddler Lara and dog Elvis. Elvis checked us out when we got there and after a few warning growls, he decided we were OK.
The house is on a small dairy farm which has been in Andreas' family for generations. He runs 20 cows and, yes, they all have names. Each milking stall has the individual cow's name on it. Our room was on the first floor of the house and was reached by a very steep external staircase. By the time we got there, it was pouring with rain and the temperature was dropping.
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Because we had lost some time getting lost, we were running behind time so virtually had to drop our bags and then head into Bern to meet up with David Sykes (David employed Derek for the Orbit job in Cyprus). Andreas was concerned that we were heading into Bern to meet someone and we had no map or GPS so he loaned us his GPS which was very kind of him, as there is no way we would have found the restaurant without it.
However, finding the restaurant turned out to be the easy part - finding a car park in the pouring rain was a challenge. There were a lot of mutterings of "where on earth is that jolly car park" and "no, you can't jolly well park there, it is private parking". Eventually, I saw a cyclist heading into a car park on what I thought could be a road so I directed Derek to follow him. Hmmmm, I don't think cars were actually supposed to go that way however, we did find the car park and managed to get the restaurant 10 minutes early! We had a lovely dinner with David and it was great to catch up with him and all his news.
Getting home was a doddle compared to getting into Bern so it was not too long before we were climbing the stairs to our lovely room. It is very big for a B&B room and looks out on to someone's garden and then across the hills where the cow bells can be heard tinkling in the distance. You almost expect Heidi to come tripping down the hill.
No trouble going to sleep tonight!
This morning we were at the Information Centre at Naz bright and early and the lady there, kindly printed out directions for us on Google Maps plus we bought a map of Northern Italy to help with the main roads.
As my toe was feeling much better, I did the driving today and Derek navigated. I thought driving the Brenner Pass rather than being a passenger might be less scary. It wasn't. Anyway, once we got past Innsbruck it was much better and I did enjoy the drive.
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| A village along the road |
We only got slightly lost once and that was not really our fault as the road we were supposed to take to Oberburg was closed for roadworks and we couldn't figure out how to get back to where we needed to be. However, a friendly shopkeeper put us on the right track and away we went.
The B&B, which was about 5 minutes drive out of Oberburg was delightful. It is run by Andreas and Rahel Bracher with their toddler Lara and dog Elvis. Elvis checked us out when we got there and after a few warning growls, he decided we were OK.
The house is on a small dairy farm which has been in Andreas' family for generations. He runs 20 cows and, yes, they all have names. Each milking stall has the individual cow's name on it. Our room was on the first floor of the house and was reached by a very steep external staircase. By the time we got there, it was pouring with rain and the temperature was dropping.
Because we had lost some time getting lost, we were running behind time so virtually had to drop our bags and then head into Bern to meet up with David Sykes (David employed Derek for the Orbit job in Cyprus). Andreas was concerned that we were heading into Bern to meet someone and we had no map or GPS so he loaned us his GPS which was very kind of him, as there is no way we would have found the restaurant without it.
However, finding the restaurant turned out to be the easy part - finding a car park in the pouring rain was a challenge. There were a lot of mutterings of "where on earth is that jolly car park" and "no, you can't jolly well park there, it is private parking". Eventually, I saw a cyclist heading into a car park on what I thought could be a road so I directed Derek to follow him. Hmmmm, I don't think cars were actually supposed to go that way however, we did find the car park and managed to get the restaurant 10 minutes early! We had a lovely dinner with David and it was great to catch up with him and all his news.
Getting home was a doddle compared to getting into Bern so it was not too long before we were climbing the stairs to our lovely room. It is very big for a B&B room and looks out on to someone's garden and then across the hills where the cow bells can be heard tinkling in the distance. You almost expect Heidi to come tripping down the hill.
No trouble going to sleep tonight!
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