“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.” Jean-Paul Sartre Wednesday Breakfast is included but there are no eggs. It is time to leave the mountains of Austria and head for wine…
Category: Austria
Italian Lunches
“The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.” Mary Shelley Tuesday Fine weather and Shell feels like lunch in Italy. We can take in the Swiss Alps and almost all of Liechtenstein with a few detours. Liechtenstein is 25 km in length, and a neatly matching 25,000 people live here. A constitutional monarchy,…
Damüls Diversion
“We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.” David Whyte Monday The realisation comes that we are not in Damüls, we are in Lech am Alberg. Today we depart for nearby Damüls. Only an hour away,…
Lech am Alberg – Austria
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” John Muir Sunday A better night’s sleep for Shell. Breakfast provided. Today we head for Austria. The most western state, Voralberg. Our village is at 1700 m elevation and in the…