Stuhlfelden, Austria

The balcony view we had to leave this morning

Tuesday 14 June

We got away to a good start this morning, leaving Bohinj at approximately 9:30am.  We had a quick five minute stop at Lake Bled as Derek wanted to take some photos of the castle.

Cqstle, church and racing gondolas at Lake Bled

From there we headed north west and quickly came to the Austrian border where we were charged 6 euros to use a 7.5 kilometre tunnel and then another 7.9 euros for a toll pass.

A village glimpsed in passing

We made our way across the Alps through some spectacular scenery, part of which was the Nationalpark Hohe Tauern.

We are having a spot of bother with internet access and a French keyboard, so we are getting behind.  There's möre tö çome later, büt D will post this to show that we are still alive and kicking.

OK, WIFI seems to be working again so will try to get this post finished and another one up before we leave for Heidelberg.

Stuhlfelden is a small town in the state of Saltzburg.  It is quite a small town having a population of only about 1,500 people.  There is only the one hotel in town but it was lovely, quite old and with big modern rooms.  All the balconies facing the road have window boxes full of red geraniums so it was very pretty.  We went for a short walk through the town which took all of 15 minutes before finding a butcher who sold all sorts of smoked meat and sausages.  So, in an effort to support the local economy, we bought a piece of speck and a dried venison salami for our lunches over the next few days.