Austria and Switzerland (18 April – 6 May 2023)

Austria and Switzerland (18 April – 6 May 2023)

Great Welcome to our next video um this one’s about Austria and Switzerland and by the time we got to Austria if you’ve watched our previous video you would have known we’ve been through a bit of an ordeal and so we were mentally burnt out we didn’t realize it but um we had

Changed our route and so we were on our way up to Netherlands and went through Austria which we weren’t going to but on the just as we were getting into Austria if I remember correctly I managed to make contact again with a good friend of ours

Uh Renea and Manuela from AB from Abu Dhabi and they happened to be at their home in Austria and offered us a place to stay which we graciously accepted and actually only once we got there did we realize that we actually needed to decompress quite significantly so it was quite a godsend

To have a house to stay in um a place to park the van to do some work on the van as we needed but really just time to chill out cuz we we’d actually gone to Vienna um as well yeah which was also exciting because again our contacted

Friends who I knew were living in inbrook and they then said no they’re actually in Vienna and we were like literally a day before we were going to go to VI so we we met them and at the Anglican church and then went there for lunch um at their house but the

Interesting thing about the Anglican Church is while we were sitting there uh two people came and sat behind us and we actually know them um they from the Anglican Church in Dubai and they were visiting their son so from not knowing anybody in Vienna we were actually quite

A good party there in uh in the Anglican Church quite a a good Corner um but we also Vienna we were we were just so tired and me being a musician I just felt that I had to at least go and see Vienna which was always the cultural or the musical capital of

The world for for so many years but to be quite honest um we were done we did go to Vienna and we did go and see the sites it was raining um but we really just glanced through it and uh we’re on our way to our friend Bren was um we

Just couldn’t do this anymore just this constant having to look for a place to sleep having to look for water water in austri is very difficult to find because all the fountains um have very beautiful ornate ornates Fountain heads or whatever you want to call it and so they aren’t

Actually screw on Taps and so we just battle to find water that we could use in the van um and we were just we were yeah we were exhausted um but after that moving on to Switzerland Switzerland again just sorry while we’re with r the one thing I

Missed there was he didn’t yodel at all oh well well we had Switzerland as well we didn’t get yodling in Switzerland either Switzerland we did quite fast because it’s really expensive um and it’s not very camper van friendly no um there are very few places that you can wild camp in

Switzerland everything is marked no camping they they do their best to force you into paid camping sites which is very expensive very expensive expensive I mean even we had a cheese bondue which is it was nice but it was was craz expensive um we weren’t going to do

Austria and Switzerland in our initial planning but my sister who lived in the Netherlands contacted us when we were either in Greece or southern Italy to say that she was having her 40th wedding anniversary and and could we change our plans and come to the Netherlands to

Celebrate so that’s why we then took that route because our original route was to actually go to France and then to Spain and Portugal um so Spain and Portugal we had to Forfeit which is absolutely fine because family is far more important for us um and also

Because I’ve I’ve only got the 3 month shenen we were that’s why we were racing through Italy and Greece and cuz we wanted to do France and we wanted to do Spain and Portugal before my Visa um ran out and so having to change course um

Just gave us time and that gave us then time to actually chill out for it was a week I mean every day we told Rena we’re we’re leaving tomorrow and a week later we were still there and eventually said okay we now need to need to move on also

Um we have been to Austria and Switzerland before but it is just so beautiful um every single corner and Viewpoint is just you know so picturesque postcard pictures um it is really just a stunning stunning place so we did enjoy that but um and it was good

For us I think just having something calm to look at as well um was just exactly what we needed so I hope you enjoy this video yeah yeah and that’s if you haven’t please subscribe as usual and give us your comments and hope to see you on the next one all right then

Thanks a lot bye bye and we’ve made it into Austria yeah after Bing the whole day trying to find water we still didn’t find any water that we could use in 400 m turn left but we’ve just got into Austria but it’s time to find a place for the

Night this is our first little village in Austria just past the Austrian Italian border we’re on the mountain path to the gr of Cl this is really a mild nice Meandering Road in the mountains little villagers along the way the gr clna is 3,798 m above the Adriatic

It is not only the highest mountain in Austria but also the highest mountain in the east of the Brena pass we didn’t go all the way to the top because to get there would have cost us €0 for the van which just to go and see the view was a little bit

Much but this is also really very pretty La And suddenly from the motorway we in a a gorge on our way to hopefully a good campsite this is very different to anything we’ve seen up to now there’s even a mirror there so you can see if cars coming or not before he attempt to Go the other person on the other side is also looking at the mirror this is just P grass Oh The St Stevens Cathedral is the symbol of vien and also the very center of the city at 136 m in height it is the tallest Church in Austria its construction lasted for 65 years from 1368 to 1433 Then is God So The hoffberg is the former Imperial Palace of the hsur Dynasty in Austria was built in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards since 1946 it is the official residence and workplace of the president of Austria That’s E this is our parking place for the night on our way to halad we’ve just spent a whole day in Vienna this is just a pretty place we slept last night and sent the day today new charging physically rained most of the day the WEA Sunny we going this thing is the

Km not sure how you mountains it’s been cloudy and windy the moment You said you’re back in Austria yeah we are back in Austria I think so The This is the little village of Nazareth um in the Tero area we’ll be visiting our friends Rea and Manuel in the children we arrived in the rain yesterday and it rained the whole day which was perfect for us because we just needed a day to just do

Nothing but today it is so beautiful the sun is out we’ve seen a couple of these lawn mowers on our TR in Austria very clever idea so that you can have your lawn mode the whole day long and you don’t have to do it yourself we’re in a very big house it’s

Their guest house um and because it’s sunny today we’ve decided to take everything out of Jenna and give it a bit of an air a bit of a dry a bit of a wash I [Applause] For It’s The history of the analin Abbey starts with main rout of analin in 18 829 the abbey church was rebuilt by the Abbot Morris between 1704 1719 and Renovations were also started in 1977 and completed in 1997 the ABY is a major resing point for the pilgrims traveling to San yoga de

Compostella cathedral in Spain it currently operates a private high school along with a winery restaurant and other small businesses in order to support itself The chapel Bridge is a covered wooden foot Bridge spanning the river Reus diagonally in the city of lucern in central Switzerland named after the nearby St Peter’s Chapel the bridge is a unique in containing a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century although many of them were

Destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries old bridge in a 1993 fire subsequently restored the chapel bridge is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe as well as the world’s oldest surviving trust Bridge it serves as the city symbol and as one of Switzerland’s main tourist Attractions Turn right all these narrow little roads that we have to go down to hoping desperately that someone’s not going to come up when we going down people drive up and down here the whole day turn left combies buses and things so this should be all right turn left This is coming into M brunin looking for tourists and everybody else and all the Waterfalls The trimbach Falls are the world’s only Glacier waterfalls that are accessible underground by lift galleries tunnels paths and platforms they alone carry the Melt water of the glaciers from the yunga down the valley up to 20,000 l/ second the water carries within over 20,000 and tons of Boulders and screamer

Here and causes the entire Mountain to shudder and make a thundering noise [Applause] Some exciting little tunnels and overhangs slightly different architecture in this Village We on our way to merant is a middle so maybe it’s all starting to change now just looking at all these Tor like houses that are turn in this whole area continue okay going up are we I’m just doing what go tells me to continue straight this Road’s far from straight lady

We’re currently in uh freeor which is quite close to Merton in a little bit more southern western Switzerland the whole scenery has changed mountains are far away just got Fields but all the canola Fields now so all the yellow plantations and we just po par in the woods next to the

Road very nice calm Spot go Buble bu He For

After their harrowing ordeal in Italy, Hanneke and John head for the peaceful and beautiful scenery of Austria and Switzerland to regroup and to visit friends.

John and Hanneke live in Abu Dhabi – United Arab Emirates. They have converted a delivery Peugeot Boxer van into a campervan and are presently during a Road trip having driven from the UAE to Europe, UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. They are currently in Turkiye waiting for visas to travel through Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi to get back to the UAE.

Music:
Look Both Ways Nathan Moore
Desert Planet Quincas Moreira
Adagio G. Galuppi (performed by Hanneke Willson)
Prelude in C J. S Bach (performed by Hanneke Willson)
Presto in F F. Mendelssohn (performed by Hanneke Willson)
Polka Op. 3 No. 14 P. Tchaikovsky (performed by Hanneke Willson)
Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 F. Chopin (performed by Hanneke Willson)
Mirror Mind Bobby Richards
Brass Orchid Bobby Richards
Where We Wanna Go Patrick Patrikios
Headphones RKVC
Seasons Telecasted
Austrian Traditional music performed by students