 Poster: A snowHead
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fatbob, add 4.5 hrs to Stansted and the same back.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Frosty the Snowman, That's just a price you pay for living next door to God's own county (& I don't mean Teeside  )
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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fatbob, 2 x S ya muppet!!
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[quote="5RED"]2 things wrong with Austrian skiing...
1. Crucifixes everywhere
2. Dodgy war memorials to WWII "heroes"
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I had a walk around the big onion domed church and grounds in SOLL.The grave stones with ceramic pictures on them of men in Nazi uniform all had the faces scratched off.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Holy thread ressurection cc_7upman 
7am church bells not great either.
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It's been two years since I've been to Austria, but the only thing wrong is that disgusting stuff everyone but me seems to love; weißbier!
Going to France (involuntary shudder) for the first time in 10yrs. How many things are wrong there...........................
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| HutToHut wrote: |
7am church bells not great either. |
unless they are accompanied by mist over the meadow and cow bells...outside your apartment...[/]sigh[/]
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Last year in Italy (sud Tirol admittedly) they rang the chuffing church bells on the quarter hour every quarter hour, ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
a 7am start sounds very civilised by comparison
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1 - I'm not there
2 - I'm not there
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Buses
Buses
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Back from the Arlberg a couple of weeks ago, and with the perspective of a good think about it, I can confirm that there is nothing about Austrian skiing that would have me go back in a hurry. Food was the same price as France, for smaller portions, hard to find with very few mountain restaurants, and having then given up and skiied into town the entire sodding place was closed to the point we couldn't find anywhere that was serving lunch, accommodation was same standard, ski hire was incredibly expensive, and the beer was the same price as every French mega-resort I've been drinking in over the last few years.
The absolutely best thing about Austrian resorts is the quality of the lifts. Everything else was, erm, a bit meh. We sat around and honestly couldn't work out if we were a different resort or country to the one everyone on SH is talking about. And not an Austrian twin in sight.
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Two things wrong with Austria compared with France for me are;
1/ I cannot spend as much money on food and drink
2/ I cannot be as bored at après
I will add a third, everyone doesn't speak English
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You know it makes sense.
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Mistress Panda, Arlberg is the french bit of Austria
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Mistress Panda, which resort were you in? There is no greater Francophile than me, but your post just makes no sense to me as a generalisation about Austria. I've just been in Ski Amadé, where there are gazillions of mountain restaurants, all serving large portions of food (I don't particularly like most traditional Austrian food, but that's another matter) at significantly lower prices than in the large French resorts I've been to. And St Anton seemed similarly well served when I was there a couple of years ago, though a bit more expensive, and I grant you that Lech is expensive (but would doubt that it is difficult to find lunch in town, when there are so many non-skiing snow-bunnies around.) I can't comment on the price of beer, as I don't drink it.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Just back from Austria and church bells were just across the road and didn't hear them once and kids told me there was a mega session at midnight Christmas Eve.
love the beds,
Love the Jaeger, apple strudel, pizza.
actually can't think of one thing I dislike about Austria, so much so We are back for a long weekend in March. just trying to figure out how to do a two week trip next year.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Anton - and his zither playing nightly in the stubli below our room......
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Mistress Panda, I'll second the consensus. I've skied in pretty much all the main European counties and Austria is my fav. I haven't been to the Arlberg though, but being able to get a bowl of goulash and a beer for €7.80 seems prety good value to me.
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In my mind Austrian skiing is more like skiing the smaller French resorts where commercialism has not taken over and where the huts are run by mountain people.
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last trip i was on, €7.80 wouldn't even buy the beer, let alone the goulash!
lasagne and coke for €31 anyone?
hint: that wasn't in Austria
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Thirded - wouldn't worry me if there was nowhere else to go - as for drinks, no more expensive than the city centre bars down the road.
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Tarquin, 8 sleeps chuck
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Tarquin, watch it, you might not be able to keep up with her!
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Tarquin, Am I going to get a chance to watch Yorkshire vids with you again this year?
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Can't wait to go to Austria...if for nothing else but to try these boob dumpling things! 
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v1cky24, bleughhh
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v1cky24, Suckle my yeasty titbreads!!!
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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They're fairly stable.
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Poster: A snowHead
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will stick to Kaiserschmarrn. Or strudel.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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andy, Strudel your loins??? 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| v1cky24 wrote: |
| Can't wait to go to Austria...if for nothing else but to try these boob dumpling things! |
chomp away they are lush!!
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Germknödel mit mohn = yeasty boob dumpling with fag ash, custard us better though
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As Spyderman observed to me the other day, Austrian food is comprised largely of dumplings, with either gravy or custard on them.
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Or venison or wild boar in berry sauces and pasta 
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The Flying Gooseberry, yeah, and the two things wrong with Austrian skiing are?
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HutToHut, well, one of them is dumplings. Can't think of another at the moment. (And I like sauerkraut and potato salad and gulaschsuppe, so it's not all bad food-wise.)
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I am off to Mayrhofen tomorrow for my first time in Austria so was well amused and interested by this thread / have made a phone note of all the puddings - which is funny as I am also on the slimming thread 5:2 diet haha
Defo gotta try the boob fag ash wonder
Is there a good spa facility in Mayrhofen? Steam sauna etc?
Also is the arlburg or arlhorn accessible from there?
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| HutToHut wrote: |
| The Flying Gooseberry, yeah, and the two things wrong with Austrian skiing are? |
Me and my ego
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