Sunday, 25 March 2012

25th March 2012

19 Willingham Road
Over
Cambridge
CB24 5PD

25th March 2012.

Dear All,

We had a great week in Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria as you have all doubtless read in your postcards. We arrived in drizzle and left in snow otherwise it was more or less wall to wall sunshine, far warmer than Italy last year so we tended to have packed the wrong clothes. There was plenty of snow – still a couple of feet on the highland but beginning to melt in the valleys. We had three days of valley or gentle slope walking and three of ski lifts or gondolas to the top of mountains followed by walking downhill.
Travelling was a bit complex with the return journey consisting of taxi, two Austrian trains, trolley bus, plane, shuttle bus, 3 UK trains, bus, then collect our car from Harrow to drive home.
As usual the Travel Agent (Graham) was faultless with transport, accommodation, routes all immaculately planned.


4 feet of snow















Knollhof Hotel


Gondola to Dachsteingletsher





View from the Gondola



View at the top










In the Ice cave



Descent from Turlwand





Descent from Hochwurzen



Sun worshippers





Local transport

As the fine weather continued here it has been a good week in the garden – but I won’t go into details for fear of boring my readers!
I have received two more donations of seed for Moldova making four in total, fortunately John has managed to negotiate a charity baggage allowance of an additional 20kg FOC with Austrian Airlines – all we need now is a sherpa to carry it!
Our local walk started in Great Chesterford on Thursday and as the going was firm and sunny and the countryside undulating it was very enjoyable.
Kate and I travelled to Hutton yesterday to meet Mandy and Natasha then later Ben before attending Esther’s concert at the Brentwood Centre. Five choirs combined to produce 200 singers and an orchestra of 75 for “Te Deum” by Berlioz – any questions? Please address Esther.
love
Mike & Kate

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