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katherine_b at 08:27pm on 09/05/2006
katherine_b at 08:27pm on 09/05/2006Tuesday May 9
Okay, so I have now experienced something VERY EBDish – a good Achensee fog! It’s no wonder Joey was afraid of mist when she, her family and the Richardsons were up at the cave in Joey and Co in Tirol. It really is very frightening as it moves so very fast and relentlessly across the mountains. I haven’t been able to see the location of the Sonnalpe for most of the day or Maurach at all, and they are only a few hundred metres across the water. I had planned to go up the Feilkopf (Mondscheinspite) or the Bärenbad today, but as I couldn’t see more than half-way up by nine a.m., that seemed pretty pointless. Instead, I went to Jenbach and purchased my ticket for Friday when I head to Nuremberg, as well as an old poster for the Zillerthalbahn that I’ve been trying to get almost since I arrived. I caught the Achenseebahn back to Seespitz and I could certainly sympathise with those girls who feared that something would break and, to quote Frieda, ‘plunge over the side there, among the trees’ (New House). It’s certainly very steep in some parts!
In addition to the low clouds/fog, there was also quite a bit of rain today, so I have to admit that I probably didn’t enjoy the train journey as much as I otherwise might have done. I’m also not 100% (a bit of a coldy-flu thing, I think) and that didn’t help either. Despite that, though, I got the ferry all the way to Scholastika and visited the Heimatmuseum Sixenhof, which shows a lot of the way the Achensee would have been around the time of EBD’s visit there in the early 1920s, both using photographs, but also a lot of original furniture. Very lovely indeed!
I didn’t do much else today really. I had to wait an hour for the return ferry, as the path between Gaisalm and Scholastika was blocked with more snow and ice, as the path up to the Dalfazalm had been. (And there was no way I was walking around the other way!) I plan to visit the Dripping Rock tomorrow morning and then, depending on the weather, perhaps consider a trip up the Bärenbadalm or Feilkopf. Fingers crossed it will be fine!
Okay, so I have now experienced something VERY EBDish – a good Achensee fog! It’s no wonder Joey was afraid of mist when she, her family and the Richardsons were up at the cave in Joey and Co in Tirol. It really is very frightening as it moves so very fast and relentlessly across the mountains. I haven’t been able to see the location of the Sonnalpe for most of the day or Maurach at all, and they are only a few hundred metres across the water. I had planned to go up the Feilkopf (Mondscheinspite) or the Bärenbad today, but as I couldn’t see more than half-way up by nine a.m., that seemed pretty pointless. Instead, I went to Jenbach and purchased my ticket for Friday when I head to Nuremberg, as well as an old poster for the Zillerthalbahn that I’ve been trying to get almost since I arrived. I caught the Achenseebahn back to Seespitz and I could certainly sympathise with those girls who feared that something would break and, to quote Frieda, ‘plunge over the side there, among the trees’ (New House). It’s certainly very steep in some parts!
In addition to the low clouds/fog, there was also quite a bit of rain today, so I have to admit that I probably didn’t enjoy the train journey as much as I otherwise might have done. I’m also not 100% (a bit of a coldy-flu thing, I think) and that didn’t help either. Despite that, though, I got the ferry all the way to Scholastika and visited the Heimatmuseum Sixenhof, which shows a lot of the way the Achensee would have been around the time of EBD’s visit there in the early 1920s, both using photographs, but also a lot of original furniture. Very lovely indeed!
I didn’t do much else today really. I had to wait an hour for the return ferry, as the path between Gaisalm and Scholastika was blocked with more snow and ice, as the path up to the Dalfazalm had been. (And there was no way I was walking around the other way!) I plan to visit the Dripping Rock tomorrow morning and then, depending on the weather, perhaps consider a trip up the Bärenbadalm or Feilkopf. Fingers crossed it will be fine!
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