Good afternoon,
Today, according to weather.com, it was supposed to rain. I am glad to say that once again the forecasters were wrong. We woke up to a beautiful sunshiny day. Right now, at 4:00 p.m., I am sitting on the balcony of my hotel room and this is my view:
So we may get the rain tonight, but it is still very nice outside.
Instead of going up to Compatsch today, we decided to go only halfway up the mountain. There is a chair lift right here in town that took us up to a little mountain restaurant that has pastures for cows, horses and the ever-present goats. This little area is called Marinzen. It is a pretty spot, with hiking trails running up to Marinzen, and several leading away from there.
It was so nice up there, hikers were relaxing on the lounge chairs and sun bathing. The goats were taking a nap on the platform for the kiddie slide.
But also, today, there was a musical group playing Oktoberfest music….polkas, waltzes, two-steps. That was very enjoyable, too, sitting there in the sunshine, drinking a beer, watching the dancers dancing in their hiking boots.
Later, we walked out and were able to pet the horses and the cows. The animals expected we had food for them, so I was a bit leery, but they all behaved nicely.
As I said before this is just beautiful country…very relaxing, very clean, and very nice people. I never get tired of looking at the mountains, the meadows and the pretty little white houses with red or brown roofs.
We went for a walk in town after returning to Castelrotto. The weather is just so conducive to being outside, none of us wanted to come back inside. Susan hiked back to town instead of taking the chair lift. She said she did the hike in 30 minutes. It was posted as taking 1 hour 20 minutes, but I swear she is part mountain goat anyway.
But just so that you know, I do have to do chores, like laundry, which is washing as I am writing. Then we have to decide where to go for dinner tonight.
Hmmm..shall it be the wiener schnitzel tonight, or the sausages with sauerkraut? Big decisions to make.
I shall sign off for now and tackle these weighty problems.
Ciao for now,
Dolly
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