Saturday 27 August - To Lago di Braies
(by Martin)
Hotel Tautermann
obliged with early breakfasts and we (Martin, Sue, Ken and Helen) were on our
way to Munich
by 7:20. We were there by 9:20 - half the duration of last week's trip. The
overlap with Ken and Helen being dropped off and Richard and Jenny being picked
up worked well, and by 11:00 we were on our way again, this time avoiding the
ever present traffic jam past Munich by going via the inner ring road, and
reaching Innsbruck at 2 pm after a three hour trip.
It took another
half hour to locate the badly signposted Bahnhof and pick up Andrew. He had
lunched at Wienerwald, our meeting place last
night, whereas we had lunched on a sandwich at a German service station where
the toilets cost 50 cents to use. (These were the days
when charging for the use of toilets in the UK
outside London
was very rare. These days, if we could go to Germany, paying for toilets wouldn't be worthy of note.)
And so, after
speeding over the Brenner Pass we spent ages
in a traffic jam before Brunico due to a diversion down narrow lanes, then
shopping for final provisions was itself a little fraught, with poor signing
and a storm contributing to the difficulties. Sue eventually emerged triumphant
from a supermarket and we then sat behind a very slow vehicle before finally
zooming up the road through lovely meadows to Hotel Pragser Wildsee, by Lago di
Braies at 1496 metres.
Arriving at 6 pm,
we disembarked in the rain and Sue and I spent time sorting gear before we all bathed
and adjourned for a set dinner at 7:30. A good meal, followed by a slideshow
from Hermann which showed the area mainly in winter. High quality images and a
slick presentation with carefully chosen music.
Richard and Jenny
then headed for the schnapps whilst the rest of us went to bed at 10 pm, but I
think they soon followed.
Next Day
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