Month: July 2017

Well, the night in the Alexander Hütte wasn’t quite as relaxing as we hoped. After having difficulties in the evening to find the bathroom free for cleaning the teeth and no hot water after 8 p.m. anymore we nearly were asleep when we heard strange noises.  Continue reading “Day 13 – from the Alexander Hütte to Döbriach”

After getting up earlier than the days before we had a nice, but short breakfast before we headed off again.

Thankfully, we chose the Hotel Gmeineck because this way we had a headstart of 2 km into the next stage. Continue reading “Day 12 – from Seeboden to Alexander Hütte”

Today we had planned our rest day though after the last few more relaxing tours I didn’t feel like I needed one. Anyway, it was nice taking your time at the breakfast, doing some washing and even some reading. Usually, after hiking all day and after writing the daily blog entry I’m already too tired for reading…  Continue reading “Day 11 – rest day in Seeboden”

The Pension Alte Mühle was really nice, we slept well and the breakfast was great for vegetarians. We were a bit sorry to leave because Gmünd is really a pretty town!

We set off quite stresslessly because today’s route was easy and the weather forecast stable.  Continue reading “Day 10 – from Gmünd to Seeboden”

In the cool height of the Hühnersberg we slept quite good and where fit and ready for breakfast at 7.30 a.m. Unfortunately, the innkeepers weren’t. So, hungry as we were we spent a little while outside in the morning sun doing our warm-up for the hike and then went packing our backpacks.  Continue reading “Day 9 – from Hühnersberg to Gmünd”

We slept very good this night (there was no noise anywhere!) and had a very nice breakfast together with Anna whom we had met at Danielsberg the day before and who is also hiking a part of the AAT.

Today I decided to take the antibiotics because my hand was still swollen from the damn horse fly bite. I couldn’t remember if and when I’ve ever taken antibiotics before and was quite unsure how my body might react but it wasn’t very bad. My stomach just felt uncomfortable for a while but it got better.

At 9 o’clock we started today’s tour again. Continue reading “Day 8 – from Pension Scheiflinger to Hühnersberg”

With today we’ve now been hiking one full week! Especially the first days were hard and nearly brought us to our limits. After yesterday we were very exhausted and didn’t do much else than to lie in bed from 6 o’clock p.m.

But today was the first time hiking felt easy. Of course it helped that we had an easy, comfortable route today but also my hips nearly didn’t hurt anymore, my feet only a little towards the end and there were no neverending steep descent. So all in all, today was great! 😊

Though it didn’t start so very great.  Continue reading “Day 7 – from Obervellach to Pension Scheiflinger”

When yesterday was the most boring stage then today was one of the most beautiful so far.

First we wanted to do the round trip to the lake Stappitzersee which also meant we could leave our backpacks at the accomodation. How easy walking is without 10 or more kilos on your back!!!  Continue reading “Day 6 – from Mallnitz to Obervellach”

Today we hiked the most boring and hardest tour so far…  Continue reading “Day 5 – from the Fraganter Schutzhaus to Mallnitz”

Since we had no connection whatsoever yesterday evening I’m adding day 4 today. 😊

We slept very good in the Pension Pichlerhof and though the breakfast wasn’t very large we got our stomaches filled for another long and hard day of hiking.

The path from the accomodation to Stall wasn’t very exciting but quite ok and well marked. We stopped at the local and only supermarket for some ginger (according to our landlady this should help against cold sores – as if normal blisters weren’t enough 😒) and took a picture at the AAT information point before the ascent began again.  Continue reading “Day 4 – from Pension Pichlerhof to Fraganter Schutzhaus”