Wolfgangsee - swimming!

It was forecast to be, and turned out to be, very hot today.
Originally we had decided to do the pilgrimage walk along the lake from Fürberg to St Wolfgang but it was really too warm so after dashing to get the bus into St Wolfgang to get to the pharmacy before it closed at 12 (this is Austria and pretty much everything closes from midday Saturday until Monday and I needed insect remedies!) we took the boat to St Gilgen and walked from there to the badplatz (swimming spot). After stopping for a drink and very good chips at the sailing club (only place with a free table in the shade but very good) we walked down to the lake and I swam. Richard and Toby not really keen but the water was clean and beautiful and 24 degrees so what’s not to like!
Then walked round to Fürberg and took the boat to the stop opposite St. Wolfgang where we had spotted another badplatz. Another swim here surrounded by mountains and looking over towards St. Wolfgang before taking the boat back to Strobl. Even Toby paddled here.
Then a hot walk back to the hotel to shower and change before walking back for dinner at the stroblerhof hotel. Dinner in the garden plagued by wasps to start with but then a lovely evening once they had stopped being a nuisance and gone to bed!
Water melon salad and apricots pancakes for me - delicious.
A lovely day tho felt a bit guilty that the fun was all mine as the others aren’t keen swimmers. But memorable for a swimmer.
(Have the sound on for the videos - Austrian drinking songs in harmony - very lovely and quite different from a British drinking song I think!)Read more