Our final destination was a town called Hallstatt nestled on the side of a mountain. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in Europe. There was a Hallstatt before there was a Rome. People have been mining salt there since forever.
The town was like out of a fairy tale and one of the most amazing places I've been.
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| Austrian countryside |
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| The view helped ease the pain of many miles of slow traffic... |
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| Hallstatt (photo from here) |
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| The view from our hotel room |
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| The town square |
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| The Catholic church |
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| This house had the most amazing pear tree growing against it. |
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| A view of the lake from the Catholic church |
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| Our hotel. It was creaky and old and wonderful. |
5 comments:
I love Austria! Hallstatt looks absolutely breathtaking.
Dad said...Such an amazing blessing to see my little girl and her little girls with their amazing husband and father in a beautiful land that they truly appreciate. To look out the window of a creaky, old and wonderful hotel fuels the imagination and is the genesis for stories and wonder about the people who have gone before. We are so grateful you have this opportunity and hope to read in depth from your journal (written when things are quiet) to see what you saw and feel what you felt.
Journals cannot withstand the intense and often explosive nature of my personal feelings. You must rely on Annie's.
Wow - What a beautiful place. I stopped by Austria on my way home from my mission. It was one of the cleanest places I have ever been to, but that may have just been my perspective upon arriving from Ukraine.
It does look like a fairy tale! I hope Esmé will remember some of these adventures!
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