we were so over cities that we only spent an hour or two in vienna, then crossed salzburg, innsbruck, munich, zurich, and every other city between slovakia and france off our list and just headed for the hills for a week of alpine relaxation. in austria we stayed in off-season ski guest-houses, and in switzerland we were lucky enough to be hosted by anja's mum for a few days high up in the mountains near the italian border - thanks susana!
the alps in austria and switzerland were so beautiful that it left us breathless. the swiss scenery was bigger, more intense, more striking. but for both g and i, the lush green hills of austria were even more beautiful (if that's even possible), and, still captivated days later, we realise that we have left our hearts there. we'll be back!
it was a wonderfully relaxing way to end our 2 week holiday from a holiday that in many ways was 2 weeks too long. perhaps it sounds too bourgeois to say that we are suffering from tourist fatigue? but both of us are ready - and have now been ready for many weeks - to get to paris and start our new life there. we're itching for it, hungry for it, greedy for it. we'll be in the city of lights - the city of lovers - in just a few days!
incidentally, was anyone else transported back to their childhood by the first video's themesong? oh the 1980s...*sigh*
...na na naaa na na naaa na na naaa...
3 comments:
How I love the green of the Tyrol. Just breathtaking. The clips are wonderful mementos. I am envious of the joy you are feeling.
As for Neverending Story....I loved that movie...unashamedly.
Enjoy Paris.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this footage and LOVE LOVE LOVE you both!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE the soundtrack too!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE from the crazy Lesbo
Never ending story was one of my favourite childhood movies.
Glad to see you enjoyed the Alps.
How incredibly different that glacier looks in the summer! I was there last winter and it had such a different vibe. The most important, striking thing I learned from being there was to see the year-marks as you walk up the valley toward the edge of the glacier. To realise that when my great-grandfather was a boy in 1900, the walk up to glacier's edge was 1 km shorter, and during my grandfathers, then my father's time, it receded by a hundred metres per decade. And then when you look up at the sides of the valley, hundred of metres above, you can see where the ice has carved into the rockface when it was at peak height thousands or millions of years ago.
Earth has been warming up for a while.
Phuong
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