Yes we are still alive

Hello, it has been a few days since last blog. Thanks for the reminders!
Not much to tell really. We are still at the site at Hermagor, but we are
leaving tomorrow morning. It has been so nice here just relaxing and
enjoying the wonderful outdoors, apart from the occasional thunderstorm. I
have been doing about an hours cycle a day and Sue has tried to do 30
minutes or so, and we are also still keeping up with the walking / running
programme. I did another organised MTB ride yesterday, was great. Climbed up
500m or so and had great views across the valley.
The footie is all done and dusted. Couldn't face doing another blog after
the England game, was too depressed. Was inevitable once it went to
penalties and most of the key penalty takers were off the pitch. Anyway, was
over it pretty soon especially after watching Germany get knocked out in a
room full of expectant German supporters. I tried to keep my cheers of
delight fairly restrained. Glad Italy won the final in the end. The French
were not really in the game, and after the 'Zidane' incident I don't think
it was going to be their day. We could almost hear the Italian celebrations
from over the mountains!
Austria has made it onto the provisional 'places to live' list. It is very
nice in this area and house prices are pretty cheap. It is also a great area
for all sports. In the summer there is all the walking and cycling along
with any number of waters ports on the many large lakes around. In winter
there is a pretty good ski area, Nassfeld, to make the most of as well as
ice-skating on the lakes, and probably snow machining. So watch this space,
you never know.
Sue is pleased as we now have some more guidebooks for her to read. We
didn't have anything on Austria, Germany and Switzerland, so we ordered some
Rough Guides on the Internet from Amazon. They only took a few days to
arrive, and we are now armed with the guides, a German phrase book, and
pocket German dictionary purchased in town. So no stopping us now.
Tomorrow we will be heading a bit further west and slowly doing some kind of
a route around Austria. Not too sure of where and when yet but if I get my
butt into gear and keep the blog updated more frequently you will know what
we are up to.
I guess that is probably all for now, except that you will be pleased to
hear that we have been out of work for over a year now, time has flown by,
and no we are not missing it or planning to do any again for a fair while,
if at all. We highly recommend it.

Ich glaube, ich habe ein bisschen zu viel getrunken.

M&S