Before having my breakfast I take my case out to the coach and ready myself for the journey. The other driver (from Andersons in Yorkshire) is cleaning his rather gorgeous new coach (yes I am jealous!!). I shut the coach up and deliberately walk past him and say good morning. I receive a bit of a grunt in reply and he wouldn't look at me. I hope he is a bit jollier with his passengers.
We are away at 09:00 and spend most of the day on the A3!
At our lunch stop on the autobahn there are loads of police pulling in cars off the motorway and I wander over to have a look. As soon as a police motorbike or car has led a vehicle in from the motorway they turn around and go for some more. I stand and watch intrigued as they empty all of the vehicles of folk and luggage and really go to town looking for anything illegal. I am not there long when a policeman asks what I am doing and then politely moves me on saying the people being checked need a private atmosphere!
Our hotel tonight is just outside of Kufstein in Austria. It is in a small village so I put in the hotel details to the sat nav and let it do its work. I have directions but figure I can't go far wrong in such a small place. Wrong!
Our hotel is in the village of Hinterthiersee close to Thiersee. The road from the motorway is beautiful as we approach Thiersee and come across a junction that says Hinterthiersee to the left but the sat nav says to the right. I go right.
A couple of miles further on we come to another turning for Hinterthiersee that has been dug up and is fairly narrow but I take it as I can see a few buildings ahead of us and presume one is the hotel. As I approach what looks more like a farm (it is a farm!) there are a small group of men shaking their heads and wagging their fingers to say I shouldn't be on this road. They explain the road is too narrow for a bus and tell me to go back to Thiersee and take the road I didn't take earlier! So we turn round and continue on our way. It is easy to blame the sat nav but I really should have checked the directions I was given as well. Seems to make everyone laugh.
The road from Thiersee is stunning and we soon come to the Thaler Hotel which is actually two hotels on either side of the road. And it is freezing.
All but two of the group are across the road with only Evelyn and Jenny in the main hotel. The hotels are close together and joined by a walkway underneath the road.
Dinner is a set meal but very tasty and we are given a scnapps each to help wash it down.
I found out in the morning that there had been a fire alarm in the night with the warning very much like an air raid warning, very loud and unmistakable. I didn't hear it! It was in the main hotel and although everyone heard it (except Bob and I) it only affected Evelyn and Jenny. They had to leave their rooms and meet in the reception in their night clothes before the fire brigade called the all clear.
This is all a bit ironic as Evelyn is a light sleeper and always asks for a quiet room!
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