Austrian country side
Lunch at Christof's farm in Austria
Oh yes and a round of home made Snapps
Christof's farm house, great people, great setting, great food
And we weren't done! Had dinner at Arnold Schwarzenegger's favorite haunts
“The town of Grobming is quite used to the sound of vintage
and classic cars filling their narrow cobbled streets as it is here that the
Ennstal Classic takes place, an annual classic-car rally which arrived on the
scene soon after the first Pirelli Classic Marathons which came this way over
20 years ago.
There is a great mountain climb just outside of town which
was closed specially for us this afternoon, and most of us enjoyed finding the
energy to storm up to the top, where there is a wonderful wooden chalet which
acts as café and restaurant to events. Free bowls of hot goulash soup, free
coffees… just what was needed in the bracing mountain air as we all sat on
wooden benches exchanging stories of the day.
We crossed from Slovakia to Austria this morning, driving
through the valley where The Sound of Music was filmed, and arrived into
Grobming and found the road closed by the local town council and everything
organised to welcome us.
In between the morning test and the classic climb out of
Grobming, we drove some spectacular roads through great scenery today. Tonight,
we are dining on what is probably the best menu we have been presented with so
far: two kinds of local suckling veal, or medium roasted beef… take your
choice; or smoked and pickled noble fishes or mousse of smoked fish and salmon
or trout, two types of ham… take your pick, various vegetables and salads, or,
skip that and go direct for the roast turkey in orange sauce and glazed corn on
the cob, or perhaps it’s spare ribs that takes your fancy, if not, there is knuckle
of local suckling veal in gravy, barbecued shrimps, grilled medallions of
salmon trout, or perhaps something lighter? Triangoli noodles with truffle in
spring-onion cream served with parmesan, or baked calamari rings, and a vast
table of various sweet courses, strawberry and cream, Crème Brule’, this is
just some of the menu, all followed up by an extensive range of fruit. The
velvet curtain was pulled back on an extensive variety of food to the sound of
Glen Miller’s band, In The Mood.
All this because some drivers have sent messages home saying
they have lost weight while they have been away. A few days of eating like this
could rectify things before Paris.”
Peking to Paris Rally Report
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