Seefeld

Wednesday 24 August 2005

We left our packs at the Egerthof and spent the day re-visiting and photographing our 'stomping grounds'. We inquired at the station to see if the floods had affected the rail line from Seefeld to Munich. It had. We had to scramble to the Egerthof, grab our gear, catch a bus to Innsbruck and a train to Munich to catch the 20.56 to Paris. We just made it. On the Innsbruck to Munich leg we saw several houses under water with destroyed crops - very sad.

Sandbags for Flooding

Hotel Egerthof

Tuesday 23 August 2005

Apart from a short burst at shopping for supplies, Patsy spent the day in the room sucking lozenges. Sandy hit an Internet cafe only to find his e-mail down and could not read any reply from Julie in Paris. He then took a walk to the Kaltwasser and Rosshutter. We watched the sun go down wondering if we would ever be back.


Monday 22 August 2005

The morning in Seefeld was spent taking a walk down memory lane. We ran the original Hohe Munde Hotel to ground (Sandy and Patsy's first skiing holiday 1977), its now a sports shop. We found the beginners slope, the old church, the Geschwandkopf, the ski jump and the Olympia swimming pool. We also found the Jaggerheim Hotel (Sandy, Patsy, Adam and Tertia 1984), sadly now derilect and unoccupied. All these have huge memories for our family and it was wonderful to see them again. We had a long swim in the pool in the afternoon which probably exacerbated a cold that Patsy caught in Italy. We booked on the Munich - Paris overnight train on Wednesday 24 August. Sandy sent an e-mail to Julie Hasler in Paris giving her arrival info and asking for instructions to reach her place. We had a quiet evening. What a beautiful place.

Jaggerheim Hotel (from 1984 Holiday)

Geschwandkopf

Beginner's Slope

Sunday 21 August 2005

We caught the 7.08 to Innsbruck. It was a great journey. Through Tuscany (Tuscany Villas just like our Brisbane place), the Italian Alps and the Austrian Alps into the Innsbruck valley. We arrived in Innsbruck at 16.33 and caught the 18.35 to arrive in Seefeld at 19.14. We had booked into the Hohe Munde, or so we thought. After a bewildering walk around the village centre with Patsy determined to find the Hohe Munde we got a receptionist at another hotel to ring the number of the hotel we had booked into. It turned out to be a hotel called the Egerthof. The manager drove down to pick us up and for 64Euro a night we were given a huge room with CNN, a huge bathroom and a balcony. Best accommodation yet.

View from Hotel Egerthof

Hotel Munde