Magic May week in Styria & tropical June week in Salzkammergut!

The perfect selection of these two weeks was guaranteed with the beautiful sunny weather even though three frozen greeted us a little bit without mercy at beginning of May week and summer night storms went along with us in June.

May biking trails around Schladming were miscellaneous and difficult for overall evelation (135 km, 3760 m). One of them was selected from Alpentour Trophy mountain bike festival which was routed through the beautiful scenery of snowy Dachstein mountains.  The most of our impressions were from the alpine picturesque spring nature for taking of our pictures. We had a luck to see biking on an old historical bike and to emendare for parking in the centre of Schladming.  Mountain waterfalls ”Riesachfälle” in Untertal valley were marvellous. The apartments was great with the large swimming pool only for us. :o)

June holiday week was like “an immediate hot summer” at the mountain lake Wolfgangsee. Temperatures were such too high (about 35 °C) that I didn’t believe we were in the Alps. Therefore time for bathing and grilling was also scheduled  in our program. The first day was a little bit a climbing day with our Czech brothers. We had a sweat too much mainly during mountain biking but we got accustomed. A couple storms woke us during some nights but no serious issues like in Corsica. :o) The one surprised us with hail-stones and strong rain during hiking in Totesgebirge mountains. We never forget colored evening sceneries at lake, morning greetings from white swans in camping and the short romantic biking trail for our evening refreshment. The last evening with Japanese tourists was really funny!

To have a lot of experiences means to go into the mountains. Austrian Alps is “Garden of Eden” for it!

Ricardo & Mireille