Austrian mountains

I caught a terrible cold after this trip to the source of the river Mura in the Austrian Alps. It was beautiful, so different from our Alps, but also too cold for me to fully enjoy the trip.

We (a group of eight people) slept in a cozy hut with hot tap water and prices just a little bit higher than in our mountain huts. The wheat beer was excellent (so the guys claimed), as well as tea, beds were cozy but I hardly slept during the night because I couldn’t warm myself. The next day we walked up to the source of the Mura and later decided to go further up to the mountain pass from where we could see two lakes. It must be beautiful here during the summer when mountains are not covered by snow. But this time also inside of a bivouac was only 1 degree C.

On our way down we picked blueberries and cranberries, enjoyed in the scenery, spotted some Golden Eagles, a rare sight for most of us. The landscape was getting the colors of the autumn, in three weeks larches will get their yellow color, too.

It was also great to see the places that I haven’t seen for more than ten years and it was amazing to sing Slovenian songs with Austrians (I believe that not all like us very much; after all, Slovenians fought for centuries to get rid of their supremacy and German language in our institutions). And I still don’t know what happened with Slovenian taste for beauty after the II. WW because it is so obvious where the border line stands – just by looking at the houses which are in Austria so neat and cozy while Slovenian are nothing but a huge mess of all possible styles. I wonder if we really don’t have any city planning in this country?!

Driving back home we were listening to this music which seemed as an appropriate ending of our excursion.