Arrivederci bella Italia, Servus Österreich

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Yes, we are heading to north....to home...we have an important, beautiful duty to fill in Vienna...Driving back from Venedig to Wien has its own traditions. The first one is going to a supermercato to buy some prodotto tipici before leaving the lovely country. The tradition is to shop in Trecisimo. Yes, we overdid the shopping as if we are coming from a land which has nothing in the shelves for cooking. And the car is now looking awful. We cannot drive cabrio. The second tradition is to have a last Italian coffee in Tarviso, 10 km before the border. The coffee and the weather were sooooo nice. Finally the temperature is below 30 degrees!!!!

Between these two traditions, we started a new one. Having a pizza picnic on the highway between two tunnels (out of ten) and enjoying the mountains around with a lot of turkish trucks : ))

Early afternoon we reached our today's final destination Velden which lies on the lake called Woerthersee. A very famous and noble area. The palace there was the "star" of a TV-series many years ago (Ein Schloss am Woerthersee). Our hotel doesn't have a view to the lake but we are very close and directly located at the border of a wood. It smells fresh, clear and it is totally quiet - what a contrast to the last days and weeks. Lovely!!!

Ein Schloss am Wörthersee - where is Roy Black?

Our excursion downtown to the lake is a middle thing between relaxing and discussions about Marketing methods of local restaurants. First we keep our feet in the warm and clear water of Woerthersee. You must know that the water of this lake has the quality of drinking water. As all ships stop touring around the lake at 5pm we decide to rent a boat on our own to discover the area ourselves. We rent an electro-boat and with the rapid speed of 18km we are faster than all other e-boats. Again its quiet and the soft breeze and cooler weather makes us happy.

Mrs. Daisy-Seda & 

her chauffeur

We finish the day with the wish for a nice dinner. The first restaurant seems to be "fully booked" despite the fact that all tables are empty - are the guests really changed their eating-timing?? In the second one we have the same picture - all tables empty. We ask if this can be true and the answer is: we can take any table we like!!! So we have a nice dinner with direct lake-view and the interesting discussion how this marketing-joke works? To be honest - we didn't find an answer. Further possible guests partly sat inside, some left again and after 1 1/2 hours we left and only 5 table were occupied. The other 30 empty. Can that be true???

After this interesting but crazy marketing efforts we sit finally again directly at the water looking at the other guests like an odd couple watching whats going on in the world.

A relaxing day ends and we are getting our energies back by joking around (see first picture of today)!