Strobl and St Wolfgang

After a bad nights sleep (snoring problem!!) I felt a bit rubbish but wanted to do stuff so had a couple of strong coffees and headed out to Strobl to find a boat.
There are lots of boats on the Wolfgangsee including a paddle steamer - Toby’s favourite type of boat so a must for us. The one on Wolfgangsee is the Franz Joseph built in 1879 - so older than the ones we found on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland two years ago. Unfortunately we found out it wasn’t running today but hope to see it another day.
We took a very smart ‘ordinary’ boat to St Wolfgang instead. This was a short trip of about 30 minutes after which we spent some time in the very pretty town which is at the base of a very expensive cog railway. Decided we would leave that for another day but it does look spectacular and might be worth doing on a clear day as it goes up over 2000metres. Today we would have seen very little up there as there was quite a bit of cloud.
After wandering round St Wolfgang and stopping at a cafe we took the boat back to Strobl.
Our hotel doesn’t do food on Mondays and Tuesdays so we booked a table for dinner in the town. People eat very early here and we had to book for 5.30 as the (slightly) later tables were taken. However as I was pretty exhausted and we didn’t really eat lunch this was fine today.
The place we ate was extremely popular and we definitely wouldn’t have got a table if we hadn’t booked. Again the food was good but huge portions which defeated me.
The walk back to the hotel was very welcome after a big meal - it takes about 25 minutes, perfect for a post prandial stroll!Read more