Tarviso, Italy to Worthersee, Austria

Today we drove from Tarvision to Lake Fusine in the far north east of Italy. There were 2 lakes there that were very beautiful with the mountains and pine forest in the background. We walked around the lakes, saw some fish in one of them and enjoyed a walk in the much cooler climate. From here we drove and crossed the border into Slovenia for 10mins then another border crossing (both unmanned) into Austria. After my first German speaking experience obtaining our toll sticker for the car we ventured further into Austria. We then went to Worthersee, which had a very large lake, followed by a drive to Pyramidenkogel is an 851-metre (2,792 ft) high mountain in Carinthia. We climbed a 67.36m high tower with an amazing view of the Worthersee lake and surrounding area. After lunch DB had a nasty fall (kamikaze roll and all) down a gutter and has hurt his ankle. Amazing how he can walk forever in the bush and is as nimble as a goat, misjudged the gutter and hurt quite badly. Almost took me out as well as he rolled directly under my feet. We hope he will be ok to walk tomorrow. We then went to Maria Worth a little ghost town with an interesting church on the waterfront. Very pretty. We struggled with the internet and weren’t quite sure how we were going to book tonights accommodation without it when none of the hotels displayed vacancy signs. Luckily technology prevailed and we mad our booking at about 5.45pm. It was going to be a very cold night in the car otherwise as temperature dropping to 5° overnight with the chance of snow in the mountains. Our hotelier recommended a traditional Austrian restaurant and suggested meal which we enjoyed – Backhendl mit kartoffelsalat und Kernol (1/4 or ½ chicken snitzel with potato salad and black pumpkin oil) followed by crepe with chocolate sauce and ice cream (a traditional dessert).

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