Altenmarkt im Pongau

We left Croatia around two o'clock yesterday and headed for Austria. We are in Altenmarkt now with Thomas and Lotta. When we arrived yesterday we went out for a very nice dinner at Shartner with Thomas, Lotta, Kerstin and Rupert. 

We started our day with rafting, it was so much fun. 3 full rafts and a lot of waterbattles between the rafts. 

In the afternoon we visited Dachstein destilleri. 

Poreč, Croatia

Relaxing, sunbathing and enjoying life in Croatia. 

Chiaggio vs Venice

We spent last night in Chiaggio a sister city to Venice. 

Small town with small canals, friendly people, open market with seafood, ham, fruit and vegetables. Today was also a market in the town center. 

We left Chioggia and drove on to Venice which is also a beautiful city but so full of tourists. 

Now we are heading for Croatia for couple of days relaxing in the sun before we head to Austria to visit our friends Thomas and Lotta on our way home. 

Stuck in traffic

We started our day early and drove to Pisa. There we and every other tourist walked around with our cameras at torre pendante. At least we didn't pose trying to straighten the leaning tower. 

We had a plan to drive to San Marino, but on this very warm day 38° a motor vehicle started burning at the autostrada so we've been standing still for hours. In the heat, through rain and thunderstorm and in the heat again. 

Arnstein took a power nap 

It's like this, probably all the way to Firenze and to the accident. 

Now we're staying with our original plan, and are heading for Chioggia. 

Apparently an oil truck drove into the siderail, flipped, oil leaked out and started burning. 

Late night update

Riomaggiore is also wonderful 

 

We had the greatest meal tonight. 

Deep fried anchovies as a starter and a mixed seafood risotto as a main course. 

Of course with some local wine. 

And a mohito to finish off a perfect day

Cinque Terre (five towns)

Today we are in cinque terre. It's five small towns in the hillside. We visited three of them, Monterosso the biggest one. 

There we had a big cold beer and a swim. 

Then we went to Manarola the smallest one for lunch and had the most wonderful mussels and grilled tuna fish, and of course some local wines. 

We are spending the night in Riomaggiore, we just came back to the hotel after a nice cooling dip in the ocean. 

Now we're heading out for dinner, trying some more local seafood. 

Lake Como, lake Garda and La Spezia

We woke up to this view 

Took a drive round lake Como 

Didn't meet Clooney. 

We continued our journey to the Garda lake. 

Had lunch in Salo, I think I died a little and went to food heaven, the spaghetti con vongole was fabulous. 

Now we are in La Spezia at the Mediterranean, had a wonderful meal and some Chianti and are ready to call it a night. Tomorrow we're going to Cinque Terre 

5 countries in one day

We started our trip today in Kassel, Germany and the road took us to Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and finally to Italy. 

It's been a long day with a lot of "stau am autobahn". 

Arnstein drove by Arnstein today. 

We had dinner in Vaduz the capital of Liechtenstein, wonderful pizza. 

Castle in Vaduz 

We drove through beautiful mountain passes in Switzerland. 

Now we have finally arrived to our hotel in Soricio by lake Como and are enjoying a glass of local produced wine. 

Road trip

We started our road trip today with destination north Italy. 

So far everything is going our way. We only had to wait 5 minutes before boarding the ferry to Germany. We were so hot when we came to Germany, only 28°C so we took a short stop in weißenhausen for a dip in the ocean. We didn't have any euros and almost had to stay there for the night. The parking meter didn't accept our credit cards, Arnstein turned on his charm and a nice lady helped us and payed our parking so we could continue our trip. The new car is built for German autobahn.  Now we're in Kassel somewhere between Rödeby and Italy. 

Vacation

It's time for some holiday. 

But just wanted to keep you up to date on what has happened with the greenhouse. 

More plants and a watering system. 

Arnstein and Tore has built a water cleaning system for the pond. 

Now we're off to Italy for some lazy days

And we're open for business

Windows are in, the doors are in. The first plants have moved in. Tomatoes, olive tree, fig tree, lime tree and a rose. 

Cozy time