When we were first planning this trip, Elly said she’d like to go to Villach. I was excited mostly because it meant visiting Kärnten, a Land I’d not been to before. It’s lovely – ideally we will be back, perhaps simply to find the best water-slide on the Wörthersee, perhaps to go up a hill or two or perhaps to cycle along the Drau, all fuelled by Kaiserschmarrn and Vili.
inside the cool cafe next to our Gruts hotelGruts HbfGruts Hbflunch-purveyorI like these safety signshow to get a wheelchair onto a trainanother safety signfree chocolate because the train was a couple of minutes latewe were nowhere near VaduzI’d have liked to explore Judenburg.Saint Blisteroverhead power supply on a modern ÖBB trainchapel ina shit-field?view from the trainIndian spinach in Austria?barman in VillachVillach is ready for a festivalVillach from the main bridge across the DraSo where is Teufelapoteke?A Radiohead album in 3-Dabout a building
Day 19: KärntenTherme Warmbad-Villach
I don’t know whether this originated from hot springs, but it’s a fab swimming/splashing/spa complex with its own railway station, two stops down the line from the main station! The need to rinse swimming stuff added to our need to find a laundry. Lava-Piu may be the best continental chain we’ve yet met.
but it’s July!travelling through Villachin the Warmbad station (1)in the Warmbad station (2)in the Warmbad station (3)a different genre of safety signcrazy gearingfunky sculpture on the way to laundrywhat you can do, in lavapiuthe machines automatically add detergent, but there are these optionsa local schoolMurielThere was some sort of festival in Villach high street this evening
There’s a place called Frog along the Drau. it appears to have a museum of Celtic life. Another reason to return to Villach – with our bikes.a real-life Gemeindeamt (and a bit of my thumbpaths around the Wörtherseelooking at the Wörtherseelocal librarydrinking fountaindrinking fountainlooking across the Wörtherseelooking across the Wörtherseeclimbing frameyesThe light-bringer’s little beard?Pörtschach station – so cute!pano of Pörtschach stationThe lift is from SalzburgElly has a Vilizooming in on Ell’s ViliAt Villach BrauhofBruce and the Biermann
Digital evidence that Bruce might have a life 