Start point. Terrassen Camping, Traisen, Austria.
Finish point. Campingplatz Mooswirt, Mooslandl, Austria.
Distance. 70 Miles.
Total. 4540 Miles.
I woke today with a spring in my step and joy in my heart, I was heading back to the mountains, the first view on opening the curtains this morning was the foothills to the Alps. I couldn’t wait to get out and driving so forego breakfast and headed straight out towards the hills, most of what I’d seen was covered in forest as these aren’t as high as the mountains in the Rhône Alps where once above a certain height you get very few trees growing but snow on the peaks, even in summer.
The roads were nice and quiet and as I headed south I made the decision to venture along a fairly minor road that followed a river along a valley path between two huge great mountains that had nearly vertical sides to them, stunning.
I was able to meander along at a pretty sedate pace, pulling over to let faster drivers get on their way and to let the many bikers have a chance to enjoy the challenging roads, as some of them don’t have straights longer than a hundred metres before your into another series of tight twisting bends, bikers heaven, not so good for a big fat bloated van that wallows about like a drunkard at midnight. The van, honestly I said the van.
But, and this is a BIG but, the views are tremendous, and it was a case of stopping every few miles for photo’s, and now that we’re in proper tourist country theres always somewhere to pull in and get them pics taken, every turn in the road seemed to reveal more stunning scenery, and so it is that in early afternoon passing through the small village of Mooslandl I stopped near a campsite to ponder which way next. It was to turn around, drive for 50m and park up in the campsite, go across to the hotel that runs it and book a spot for the night, its 360 degrees mountains here, theres a lake for swimming in, a bar in the hotel, although the kitchen is closed today theres a couple of restaurants in the village and some shops so I wont starve.
This is the best part of a road trip when your destinations aren’t fixed, I had no plans to come this way but the pull from the mountains is too great, after 12 days and over 1500 miles from leaving Finland I’m back in a place that I’m happiest, the 70 miles I’ve travelled today would have taken just over an hour on the motorway but it has taken 5 hours for me to get where I am through some of the most beautiful scenery possible.
I wonder what tomorrow will bring.
Delscampertour 