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We got up early (2 days in a row!) and headed off to the
Glossglockner road (a road that goes over the mountains in Austria - built just after the war to try and create jobs and raise revenue for a country that was hit hard by the economic downturn. 
Anyway - it took us about 1.5 hours to get to the base of the road - at which point we had another snow fight, and then paid the 29 euro (yes - expensive) to get through the gate. We were slowly greeted with amazing views, I will put a few pictures up - the long steep road, with tight corners, with 30something turns over the whole road. We stopped at the top - in the snow mind you, to a panoramic 360 degree view that was amazing. We stopped there for a fair while, had some food and drinks, and then headed off to the glacier itself (the height of these mountains we were on was about 2200 to 2800m) We went to the glazier - very touristy, but it was very nice view. We kinda walked down towards it, but decided against it. We left to go home, as we had organised to do a bike ride with Stefanie and Benno at 5.00. So we had to go back. Although this post was short - it was an amazing road, with crazy good views. We arrived back pretty tired - so andrew didn't come on the bike ride. Benno and stefanie had multiple bikes (like 8) in the their basement so we used theirs. Much better when the bikes are good - we could go much faster. It was about 10kms to the lake - we did it easy, through the forest, across farm land - was a good nice ride. We met benno down at the lake, had dinner and then rode back. That night we found out we couldn't stay to watch the footy, so I spent the night trying to find a place to watch it.
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Anyway - it took us about 1.5 hours to get to the base of the road - at which point we had another snow fight, and then paid the 29 euro (yes - expensive) to get through the gate. We were slowly greeted with amazing views, I will put a few pictures up - the long steep road, with tight corners, with 30something turns over the whole road. We stopped at the top - in the snow mind you, to a panoramic 360 degree view that was amazing. We stopped there for a fair while, had some food and drinks, and then headed off to the glacier itself (the height of these mountains we were on was about 2200 to 2800m) We went to the glazier - very touristy, but it was very nice view. We kinda walked down towards it, but decided against it. We left to go home, as we had organised to do a bike ride with Stefanie and Benno at 5.00. So we had to go back. Although this post was short - it was an amazing road, with crazy good views. We arrived back pretty tired - so andrew didn't come on the bike ride. Benno and stefanie had multiple bikes (like 8) in the their basement so we used theirs. Much better when the bikes are good - we could go much faster. It was about 10kms to the lake - we did it easy, through the forest, across farm land - was a good nice ride. We met benno down at the lake, had dinner and then rode back. That night we found out we couldn't stay to watch the footy, so I spent the night trying to find a place to watch it. 
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