We’ve been having a wonderful time! As for the weather, we dodged the bullet!! J Wednesday was supposed to rain all morning, but by the time we got up and moving, the rain had stopped and it was clear sailing all day. Along the route, Kathleen the Adventurer noticed a sign for some monastery ruins, with a steep trail up into the hills. It was an awesome hike. Just when we were ready to give up, there it was. Definitely worth the trek. After burning all those calories, we treated ourselves to a lunch of wine & kuchen (pastry). Delicious!
We rolled into Zell just in time for a quick shower before meeting my relative Guenther Bast for dinner at our hotel. What a pleasant evening! The dining room was lovely, the food was delicious and the company was great. A really fun night. After dinner, we took a nice walk around the town to check out the shops. A quick stop for eis (German ice cream), and we called it a night.
An interesting story about our hotel, Schloss Zell. You’ll see from the picture that the hotel was actually a castle at one time. When we checked in, we were told that the single room (that’s me) was “really special.” It was the top floor of the left turret, which you can see in the photo. But to get to the bathroom, I’d have to use the outdoor balcony on the front of the hotel. Well, I figured that was a small price to pay for the “special” treat of staying in the turret room. I had visions of Rapunzel and Snow White – you get the idea. Well, since all of our rooms were roughly on the same level, we had to climb up 3-4 flights of stairs in a very narrow spiral staircase. It smelled really musty and the lights didn’t work very well. OSHA would have a field day with that one! When I got to my “special room,” the spiders were so thick on the ceiling, it appeared no one had wiped them down since Rapunzel left hundreds of years ago. After a kindly request to the front desk, they moved me into a room 2 floors down – which was probably the room that they gave the prince when he visited. Talk about one extreme to the other! Thanks to the Schloss Zell for making it right. I think they should lock up the turret room and throw away the big long iron key.
Here are a few more pics from Wednesday.
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| The monastery ruins |
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| View from the monastery ruins |
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