Gold Purifier Process

Ferragosto holiday in Austria

2008 Fri 15

Check under water, up to the outskirts of Salzburg, the bad weather did not disappoint. We arrive early afternoon in Berchtesgaden, Germany. We choose this location to visit the mines Berchtesgaden Salt (N 47 ° 38,349 ', E 13 ° 00,885'), as an alternative to the better known mines Hallein in Austria, just 20 min drive, but where is not allowed to visit children under 4 years. Same pitch, same mountain, two opposing sides. Given the large crowd waiting to enter, we enter the book for a couple of hours later. Now it's time we make a dress with Tutone mechanic claiming to be a perfect seal miner, added to already has three layers of clothes against the cold air we provide a snapshot of how unpleasant sauna.

Cooked to perfection and make us worthy to sit on a train of the seven dwarves, then while driving dressed as conductor of the Polar Express we sprechen security regulations, the talented photographer singing yodeling we take a picture to remember treason. Apart from the train onto a narrow tunnel at the very least, where a simple fart would have similar effects in Hiroshima. The tunnel ends in a huge room soon dug in the middle of the mountain, room after the first glance appears all the greater when it continues for many meters down in another room that goes on in other tunnels. A highly effective multi-color laser is used to explain visually the level of the sea and the subsequent withdrawal and deposit of salt. We reach the bottom at this point by a big slide Wood, a hundred feet long, a lot of fun for adults too. We continue to visit the galleries, where our guide will show machinery and working period. Too bad for the standard audio recorded in Italian, because the German leadership blurts out jokes galore, for example when talking to a Russian tourist impersonating a big brass pump from 18t to a distillation of whiskey. We arrived in a big long room completely invaded by hundreds of meters, so much so that we use to cross a big boat towed the rope, I do not know why it reminds me of a clouded Charon. Obviously, driving in his Teutonic English offers us something like boarding on the Titanic, and he obviously Leo DiCaprio, with the Czechs and Russians who laugh out loud even if they did not understand the joke in English. On the walls, while games and laser lights at all trivial and very impressive. Going up the bowels of the mountain with a cremaliera and finally return to the light of day with the usual train. What can I say: nice so handsome!

is dinner time, just climb over the mountains and descended to Hallein us sneak a free ride in the car park in front of the huge paper mill m • real, right next to the adjoining sawmill (N 47 ° 40,523 ', E 13 ° 06,647'). For security, parked under a streetlight and just having the lockup keeper of the paper mill. Is it still raining in torrents of rain and all'assordante noise that lasts all night is accompanied by the sound of the sawmill and at each change of shift workers, but ultimately a peaceful and safe place to sleep.

Fri 16
We wake up now saturated with moisture, and without due consideration of shit we on time in the 159 direction Villach. We leave after a while 'the highway because the column stops, we go out and continue to the old scenic road that runs along all the little villages. We stopped quite by chance in the parking lot of a Untertauern Wildlife Park (N 47 ° 18,018 ', E 13 ° 30,357 '). It's raining cats and dogs, but 8.5 ° C does not discourage us from admiration deer, llamas and many other species of animals free (so to speak), in large enclosures. We continue to Villach and Bad-Trebesing we stop for lunch break (N 46 ° 52,855 ', E 13 ° 30,822') in a convenient parking. The clouds disappear within an hour and the temperature rises at an altitude of 25 ° C, which allows us to quickly dry all the wet stuff during the previous day.
arrive in Villach and quickly visit the town and then take direction Faakersee .
Small note: whatever sells the company that owns this van photographed in Villach, I do not count:), maybe in Italy would not have been so successful

RV camping at Lake Night Florian (N 46 ° 34,108 ', E 13 ° 55,710') wondering why in austria Green grass grows so straight and of uniform height.

Sun 16
Let Faaker see the entrance to the motorway in the direction of Klagenfurt but deviate in the direction of Wildpark Rosegg (N 46 ° 35,256 ', E 14 ° 01,497') Where ' and spend a few hours In feeding Bambie and kindred beings with what should be our lunch.

In the afternoon we head towards Worthersee looking for a lakeside walk, which is impossible to give up access to the lake via a public road. Along the lake and then we stop Velden, opposite the Casino . Walk Rite between Ferrari F430 Mercedes Mclaren and then to bed at a rest area on the A2, with unparalleled views of the lake and an unexpected helicopter that landed on the most beautiful thing a few yards away behind their backs for help a person (N 46 ° 37,767 ', E 14 ° 05,657'). Quiet place for rest, well monitored by the Polizei and the security department of the highway, we both noticed while watching the parking lot.
Mon 18
Departure for home. We decide to return from the Pusteria and make a brief stop in Cortina D'Ampezzo in Belluno. It 'nice to see that the people who go there in Velden soldoni them and does not need to show it to others, while in Cortina is full of unlucky people who flaunts and makes sborrona back and forth in the center.

Length: about 1000km

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