My Holidays Photoblog

admin June 13th, 2007

One of the first places we went to visit was Feldkirk, because we were curious to see it, since our guide book was promoting it as “very nice old town with a castle on top of a hill”. On the road to get there we stopped in “Damuls” one of the several typical mountain villages you can find in Austria. It was a pleasant stop, and we could relax there in the afternoon.

The wonderful landscape you see in the photo below was taken from a small path nearby…

resuming our trip, more great landscapes like the mountains below were absolutely normal. We would have liked to stop behind every road turn to take pictures of those places from every possible angle!

at last, we reached Feldkirk, and I must admit that our guide book was right. The town is magnificent, rich of renovated old buildings like the one below. If only all the towns were like that!

A very funny place was a local wine-shop (photo below) , that had a giant barrel framed in the outside wall! it was a funny but at same time majestic view.

In the photo below instead you can see the Feldkirk’s Castle, not so great like the others I’ve seen in Bavary, but surely not bad either.

Of course there were plenty of interesting things to see, like churches or squares. However we wasted too much time in the morning exploring Damuls surroundings, so we had only the time to take a quick look. From what I could see, Feldkirk is a town worth checking out for sure.

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admin June 9th, 2007

In the summer 2004 I was guest in a very friendly austrian family nearby Bizau. We found that place in a internet site which unfortunately don’t remember the name. The place is truly wonderful, on a “plateau” in the middle of mountains (typical austrian landscape). I remember tough, that trying to find the specific house was an odyssey: the village is very small and in middle of nowhere, it was feeling almost you were in medieval Germany, with very few indications and houses!

Luckily we found a polite barman who was also speaking english a bit, who was able to give us some directions. In practice we had to go through the village until we found a wooden bridge, passed it we were in front of the house that was on the border of a deep wood that was climbing up on the mountains nearby.

Words aren’t enough to explain the feelings and sensations you could experience if you spent one week on “Family Huber” house!

If you like to spend quiet summer holidays, this is the place for you. Because this place is much more popular during winter, since it is located close to some good ski tracks. So in that month (July) we really had a good time, total relax with no noises or annoyances of any kind.

The farmhouse was also giving hospitality to a few chicken, 2 funny rabbits who were running like mad in the nearby fields, a few cows and a very nice black dog named “Tina”.

The property was really amazing: it wasn’t just a room, or a flat. It was a whole house for rent! Two floors with 2 bathrooms, 2 huge bedrooms, 1 dinner room, 1 kitchen and a big room that was a sort of recreation/gym place, with a ping pong table and some gymnastic apparatus.

Nearby the house, a small fountain of pure water was available for everyone to drink. Ah, the house was totally ecologic, almost entirely made of wood.

Everything for a good price of 280 euro/week. Definitely worth it!

The small village of Bizau is situated nearby a bigger one named Bezau (so it’s easy to get lost!) and they’re in the Voralberg, a region of Austria that includes a part of Constance’s Lake. The nearest biggest towns are Bregenz and Dornbirn, where you can find all the commodities, like big malls where you can find everything you need.

Of course all around the zone there are several touristic itineraries, both by feet or bycicle, that lets you explore those wonderful places.

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admin May 31st, 2007

The pictures in this post comes from a well-furnished Christmas shop, as you can see, that is located in the middle of the small town of Oberammergau, about which I already talked in the past. It’s funny because those pictures are dating back to August 2004!

Indeed, that shop sells Christmas stuff and wooden statues, etc during all the year !

The north-european cities, in particular the ones of Austria, with Salisburg, Innsbruck and Vienna, have a long tradition about Christmas street markets and in general of Christmas-related objects. Recently we visited Velden, on the coast of the big lake Wörthersee, and even if it is a medium-sized town, there was a nice street market along the main road that were selling this kind of stuff.

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