Day 20 Velden

A realy nice walk today up a steep wet gully before hilly (rather than mountainous) forests of beech, pine and larch. Then into our destination, Velden, set on another beautiful lake with the mountains of Slovenia and Italy behind.

When we were booking this trip months ago we were told we couldn't get accommodation here tonight and we now know why. Velden seems to be the Monte Carlo of the Alps and this weekend there was a sports car convention.  The photos below were all taken in the car park and out the front of one pub. And all the other pubs in town had similar cars in their car parks. Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis everywhere you looked.

Our brightly coloured friend is a fire salamander .






















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