We decided to take a day trip and spend some money to ride one of the trams up the Dachstein, the highest mountain in Upper Austria. There are a couple of trams, one which goes higher from the south side, and this one, the "Krippensteiner Seilbahn." At the top they have built this metal thing called the "five fingers," where you hang out over the cliff for a view. Not much grows up here at this altitude except low lying shrubs and a whole lot of wildflowers. Wow, what an impressive mountain. A whole bunch of crazy dare-devils come up here to jump off the mountain into the air. OK, ready, set, go, and run like your life depends on it! It does, by the way! If you catch the draft just right you go up rather than down. We made it to the top... of this part of the mountain anyway. Incredible views of the valleys below. There's the Hallstättersee.
Your Austrian home looks like what I remember seeing when I lived in and toured Europe with my family in the early 1960's....and the "neighborhood" is beautiful. Sure wouldn't mind doing my daily walk on that neighborhood street!!
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