What have the Austrians ever done for us?
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Today we rode the cable car up to 6000 feet and then rode the last 1000 feet to the summit of er.. mm. what’sit.. er.. Mount Dazbighillun or summat.. anyway.. we spent the rest of the day riding down some seriously entertaining singletrack..
So, while we were riding down we got to thinking.. What is Austria actually famous for? We made it our mission tonight to come up with ten reasons that Austria deserves to exist. We roped in help from many quarters including Ryan Leech and his lovely wife Caryn at dinner. Plus Thomas Oehler and our guide for the day Mattus Rose (Who doesn’t actualy come from Austria at all but from Slovakia).. But this is the best we could do.. feel free to add to the list of you think we have missed anything. So in reverse order we came up with….
10 - Arnold Swarzz. swarsh….shrww// Arnie!
9 - Motzart
8 - Sigmund Freud
7 - Kurt Valdheim (Occasional war criminal)
6 - Herman Mayher (He pissed about on snow at a high standard apparently - we don’t really know)
5 - Incest - a game the whole family can play
4 - Veinr Schnitzel - deep fried meat of unspecified origin - may or may not be animal based
3 - The Sound Of Music
2 - Basement Conversions and home security DIY
1 - Falco!
Off to Italy tomorrow. Who knows how that will turn out.