Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Hallstadtt, Hallstadtt, Hallstadtt. June 28th

Woke up early to rain so went back to sleep. Wake up to Sunday church bells ringing. What a nice sound.

Church Bells. Click to hear

Got up and ate breakfast in the Hotel. Best part: leibercassen on the menu. Worst part: the waitresses. Oh Well. We book a boat cruise around the lake for 11:00.  I take off to see the waterfall that drops above the town and disappears. Not much of a hike but at least some exercise.

Click to see Waterfall

 Bottom of Falls

Middle of Falls

The tour is nice lasting about one hour and the rain managed to hold off till we got off the boat.

Hallstadtt from the Lake

 Leaving Hallstadtt
 Mountains Along the Way
Coming Back to Hallstadtt
View From the Urinal in Restaurant

Then it started heavy. How do you stop a downpour?  Buy an umbrella and go inside. We had a nice small lunch and then found the restaurant we ate at so many years ago. Dinner at eight. We walked to the church above us and found the reliqey that holds the painted skulls we had seen the first time we were here.

 The Skulls

Mary Ann and those lovely bones

Church of the Bones
Back to the hotel and rest before dinner.  We had dinner at the restuarant we ate lunch at some 20 years ago. Nice meal and as we were leaving the waitress told us there was a festival down by our hotel tonight. That might explain the OmPah band. But now there was an orchestra on a barge in the lake and as the evrning progressed a barge with Austrian  Folk Dancers came up to the dock.  The evening ended with a grand fireworks  display. Quite a sendoff for us. Tomorrow we drive to Prague.



 Our Restaurant
Church at Night

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