Kurlaubsblogg IX
(For Julia: as I wrote #V twice I skip #VIII :-)
Tomorrow is the last day! Hurray! Wednesday morning Emils comes and picks me up. I had a funny thought the other day; I haven't been into a car for three weeks. Isn't that amazing?!?! Can't imagine that ever happened in my life before!
End of last week we had a some rain (I love the smell of early springrain!) and some thunder. Made some minor biketours, had a new innertube put in at the bikestore, because the old one had a tiny hole, apparantly, that couldn't be found. After that more biking. Sunday I went to CZ again. About 35 km. The nature is wonderful, somewhat "swedish", but the one little village I passed was terrible. Would rather life under a bridge in Paris, then there. If those former "eastcountries" ever will get rid of that image. "East ist east, and west is west - and never the twain shall meet". I think it was Rudyard Kipling who said that, but seem to refer shorter distances than that between the occident and the orient, as well......
Since sunday we have sunny weather but the wind is pretty cold. Today I was very busy, her in the hotel, with training, massages etc. Busy is good, makes time go faster. Spent some time on the sundeck and went for a walk in the forest before supper. Tomorrow I have the afternoon off, so I'll go for a last biketour. I never had a boring day here, but still, now I really feel it's time to get back home.
T.
Kurlaub VII
Today is Wednesday. One more week to go! I have reached the Kurlaubsnirvana now, I feel. I can relax, be lazy, sleep well and much and I just feel good all around :-) Monday was a somewhat greyish day, where I practised all those partly new skills. I found an Agatha Christie in the hotellibrary, so I have something relaxing to read again.
Tuesday, sunny but chilly, I went to "town" with my bike and bought some souvenirs. Edible souvenires. (I like practical souvenires)(...and everybody likes things to eat!) They have a bakery here, Kastners, established 1559. Their speciality is Lebkuchen - a sort of thick,soft gingerbread, one might say. Emil just loves Lebkuchen and I suppose Kastners has got the perfect recipe - I mean, they had time enough to get the hang of it!
This afternoon I was active again, after having been spoilt all morning with fango, massage and other healthy things. Took my bike for a ride through the surroundings. Sunny, but not so warm. No shorts today. About 20 km. Back home I pushed some weights - and enoyed Miss Marple.
Time for supper! Yohoooo :-)
T.
Kurlaubsinsert VI
My mountainbike tour to Vissy Brod (CZ) was wonderful. In all about 35 km. Started at 10 and was back 14.30, but I didn't hurry. Great nature impressions, that I would have liked to share with Emil & JuNi.
At first, still on the austrian side of the border, I passed the continental north/south divide - ca 750 m over sealevel. Then I crossed the border and came into the former iron curtain corridor. I was surprised to find a so empty landscape in central Europe. Most of it open range.There was absolutely nothing! And nobody! The trail was comforting well marked, though, to my relieve. In the small town of Vissy Brod, upon Moldau, I met on civilisation again. As I headed home, towards the border, this time through forestcovered hills, - again, NOBODY except me. Glad I didn't have a flat - or something worse.......... It was a beatyful forest, with small rivers, some snow and ice (had to push and drag the bike a couple of time, only short passages), the sun shining through the trees. One could have expected little Red Hood and a wolve behind any turn. Or a unicorn. Or a bear and robber. Huh!
As I came back into Austria the houses and farms were within sightdistance, from each other, again.
Back to the hotel I managed to catch some sunrays, for my belly, on the sundeck, before the sun disappeared behind the treetops and I disappeard into the sauna.
Tonight I'll have turkey in curry, for supper. I'm hungry!
T.
Kurlaub V
The sun shone all day again. Now she (the sun) is gone, of course, soon time for dinner. I'm hungry! Started the day at 7 o'clock with an aerated bath (carbonated?), then breakfast (big one!), then swimming then muscle training and gymnastics. Had the afternoon off, and went biking. What else?! Choosed the short pants - and didn't even freeze my legs off. Amazing!
Back at the hotel, same procedure as usual; sauna, but no solarium, as I enjoyd the real sun on the terrace, at lunch time. Instead I tried a face mask. Peel-off type. Bought it at Schlecker, before I left. It stuck to my face like Super Glue! I learned that one should follow the advice on the package and leave the part around the eyes out. I hope eyebrows grows grow fast........:-))))
T.
Kurlaub V
The wind has changed from cold to warm :-) After a slightly frosty morning, the sun was shining from a bright blue sky, all day. Today is friday. The morning hours were almost a bit "stressy", but I managed to sit on terrace in "portions" inbetween. After lunch I got my bike (no gloves today!) but found it had no air in the back tyre. Upps!? I walked it to the nice sports shop in town, the guy checked it, everything OK, except for the missing air so he pumped it up, an meant it wouln't cost anything. Instead I bought a shirt, 50 % off. Good deal! ( But still I wonder how the air disappeared at the first time....... - somebody let it out?????)
Yesterday I rested my legs a bit. Took a loooong walk in the sunny (but still chilly and somewhat snowy and icy) forest. Didn't meat a person. Birds where singing. Small creeks, crossing here and there. Wonderful!!!
T.
Kurlaubsreport IV
I'm truly having a good time here; yesterday (tuesday) I got salmon in sauce vin blanc. MMmmm! Today I got a wild pig (dead and cooked, yes!). Wildpork?? Bore?? Vildsvin :-) Yummi! All the other stuff is good too, of course.
After some gymnastic and swimming, on todays programme, I had a loooong good breakfast. Then I got wrapped up in warm cosy mud. Heavenly!
Weather today was dry, wind a little cold though, some sun. So after lunch I took my bike and rode it throuhg the hills, around 20 km, and daydreamed I rode on my white horse....... Back " home" I went to the sauna - the empty sauna (except me, of course), then finished off with solarium - imagining I would lay on a caribbean beach......
Last night I even socialized, in the hotel bar, for a change, in assitance of a glas of red wine. Tonight they show "Wicky und die starken Männer" here, with and by Bully Hörbiger. He's mostly funny!
T.
Kurlaubsrapport III
Duggregn, men töväder - vilket är positivt. Förutom pliktterminerna simmade jag 30 min idag. Hur manga längder det var, vet jag inte - sa langt kan jag inte räkna! Bassängen är 12,5 m. Uppförsbackemaskinen vandrade jag pa i 25 min i 5 km/timma, vilket man inte kommer sa langt pa, men det blev en hel del kalorier förbrukade, trots det. Sedan de vanliga muskelmaskinerna och lite solarium. Det gäller att passa pa! Försöker anpassa min kroppsfärg (o pannan o örona) till mitt bruna skidläraransikte. Hittills med mattlig framgang, men jag ger mig inte.
Dagens friskluftsintag inskränkte sig till att cykla till byn, som egentligen är en liten stad. 4000 invanare, och riktigt trevligt. Jag behövde ett nytt framdäck till cykeln. INNAN det gamla skulle fa för sig att smälla - antagligen i en nerförsbacke da. Skrämmande tanke. Slangen tittade redan ut, vid sidan, som en liten pestbula. Emil hade visserligen gjort cykelservice, nytt bakdäck ( som var ännu slitnare), men vi tittade väl lite slarvigt ( o pa fel sida) o bestämde oss för att däcket borde halla minst 3 veckor till. När jag ända var där, slog jag pa stort o köpte en ny cykelflaska med därtillpassande Isostar. Pa onsdag ska det visst bli soligt. Men först, i kväll, blir det Desperate House Wives, med min lilla fina whiskyflaska, som jag fick av Beate. Det var en fin present!
T.
Kurlaubsbericht II
Idag är det söndag. Ledig dag, fri för fria aktiviteter. Sov lääääänge, ända till sju. Normalt vaknar jag sex, men ligger kvar till sju. Frukost serveras fran halv 8. Efter att ha intagit ett par skrattenheter med min bok Winterkartoffelknödel (krimi à la bayern) och smält frukosten, begav jag mig ner till fitnessavdelning. Där finns en "vandrauppförbergmaskin". Jag vandrade uppför i 40 min, förbrukade 411 kalorier. Sen hoppade jag ner fran mitt berg i poolen och simmade en halvtimma. Fast först tränade jag lite med div. muskelmaskiner, förstass. Sen var det dax för lunch. Därefter bok, och sen blev jag sa lat sa jag somnade. Sköööönt. Vädret är passande gratt, med lite duggregn. Nu är jag vaken och hungrig, för jag kunde förstass inte lata bli att ta en skön promenad i skogen. Friskluft är drog jag behöver varje dag:-)
Igar var jag oxo flitig. Ledig hela eftermiddagen. Solen sken, sa jag tog min Stumpjumper och cyklade i väg en 17 km's runda. Men det bidde säker minst 20, för det var inte sa lätt att hitta överallt. Världen här i Oberösterreich (Mühlviertel) är kullig. Hälften fält, hälften skog. Orten, Bad Leonfelden) ligger faktiskt pa över 800m ö havet, har jag upptäckt. Nästan lika högt som Reutte! Och fortfarande gott om snö, precis som i Reutte. Fast cykelvägarna var torra och asfalterade cykelvägar, igar, snötäcke till höger o vänster. Nästan som att aka skidor, när det gick nerförbacke..
T.
KURLAUBSBLOGG I
Titta va ja hitta! En dator, i ett hörn.
Bäst att rapportera lite undan för undan, sa att det inte blir sa mycket till slut.
Anläggningen var definitvit en angenäm överraskning. Ur-huset, s a s, finns visst här sedan 60/70-talet, men det nuvarande tillstandet är nyrenoverat, fräscht, modernt. Maten är god, man kan välja mellen mer eller mindre kaloririka menyer.
Delvis blir man kommanderad till diverse gymnastik och träningsenheter, delvis blir man bortskämd med olika behandlingar man bara behöver njuta av. Det bästa hittils, var en MOOR packung. Varm! Svenska? Fango?! Denna "gyttja" hämtar de snälla medarbetarna ur en mossa i skogen, här bakom hotellet.
Toppen! Nu är jag hungrig. Har varit ute o cyklat i eftermiddags. Här ligger fortfarande en hel del snö. Bara de större cykelvägarna är snöfria - till större delen, i alla fall. Det är ganska kallt, men jag har mysse o langkalsingar med :-)
T.
About having a break
Tomorrow morning I'll be off for a KUR, three weeks. Bad Leonfelden in Mühlviertel, Oberrösterreich. So for three weeks I'll be out of office, so to say. What's KUR in english. Rehab? Cure? At least I hope I'll come back without backake. My back is annoying me severerly since last fall. I think I have packed everything by now; books, sportswear, 22 (!) underpanties and my bike. Biking is about the only thing I'm good at, at the moment :-)
T.
....... see you later, alligator(s)
Spring!?
The last insert was on february 12. What have I been doing the last couple of weeks? I guess a lot of important things. Like eating out with good friends, drinking afterwork beer in the skischool, treat sick familymembers,climb the mountain with skis (randonnée, that's right?) to have another beer, having guests, beeing lazy watching TV, doing my everyeveninggymnastics and so on. And I worked a lot. Most days 6 or 7 hours. And it was sooooo cold. Brrrr. WAS! Because now it's sooooo warm and the snow is melting. You can hear it melt, but till now you can't really see any difference. It's just so much of that white stuff. Today I found those white little hairy willowbuds (videung) for the first time this year. That means spring; snow or no snow!
The last snow came with a blizzard on feb.15. We all had a day off. Julia and Niki were teaching ski in their lecture free time, in february. Niki taught cross-country, for the first time, and enjoyed it more than "alpine" kids.
Hope this snowmountain will rather shrink than grow, now.
Unfortunately we never got to visit Uffe & Co in Ischgl, this year. Beacause it was the busiest week of the year, and we could impossibly get a day off, all of us. But then Niki and Julia turned ill and sick - .......and had to stay home from work anyhow!
Luckily niece Kajsa, with Willem and Selma had decided to stay over night on their way from the Netherlands to Ischgl, so at last (and least) we met them. We never met Willem and Selma before.
Nephew Victor, with Anna, intended to drive through from Sweden to Ischgl. Unluckily for them, luckily for us, they got stuck in the traffic in Reutte on Saturday evening, so we after a short phoneconference they decided to make a detour to Tannheim (25 km) to stay over night and then go on next morning on empty roads.
Victor and Kajsa haven't been here since Emy died, I think. So this year all three of them were here already :-) Linda, Kajsa, Victor. Nieces Hilda, Maja and Marleen were here last summer :-)
Last Tuesday we did it! We left work. All four of us. For a one day substitute ski holiday in Sölden.
Julia and Niki at Gaislachkogel top station on 3040 m. Julia is, by the way, very satisfied with her new Salomon skis.
T.
The last snow came with a blizzard on feb.15. We all had a day off. Julia and Niki were teaching ski in their lecture free time, in february. Niki taught cross-country, for the first time, and enjoyed it more than "alpine" kids.Hope this snowmountain will rather shrink than grow, now. Unfortunately we never got to visit Uffe & Co in Ischgl, this year. Beacause it was the busiest week of the year, and we could impossibly get a day off, all of us. But then Niki and Julia turned ill and sick - .......and had to stay home from work anyhow!
Luckily niece Kajsa, with Willem and Selma had decided to stay over night on their way from the Netherlands to Ischgl, so at last (and least) we met them. We never met Willem and Selma before.
Nephew Victor, with Anna, intended to drive through from Sweden to Ischgl. Unluckily for them, luckily for us, they got stuck in the traffic in Reutte on Saturday evening, so we after a short phoneconference they decided to make a detour to Tannheim (25 km) to stay over night and then go on next morning on empty roads.
Victor and Kajsa haven't been here since Emy died, I think. So this year all three of them were here already :-) Linda, Kajsa, Victor. Nieces Hilda, Maja and Marleen were here last summer :-)Last Tuesday we did it! We left work. All four of us. For a one day substitute ski holiday in Sölden.
Julia and Niki at Gaislachkogel top station on 3040 m. Julia is, by the way, very satisfied with her new Salomon skis.T.
