Life’s a bowl of cherries 🍒

Today was another epic mountain driving day. We left our perfect Austrian town and headed back down the mountain to the valley floor below. But we soon found ourselves going back up. The road up to the mountain pass was quite astonishing, steep climbs and switchbacks, long and short tunnels, concrete roofs over the roads designed to shelter you from avalanches. A combination of these took us all the way up to the pass where we stopped to take in the view and allow our anxiety to subside a little before facing the next challenge. Often it’s not so much that the roads are extreme, which for a born and bred caulkhead girl they most certainly are. I’m sure the people who live here drive on them every day without a care in the world. For us though it’s the fear of not knowing what’s ahead of you.
The decent on the other side took us on a very winding narrow road that was literally cut into the side of the rock face. My total concentration was needed to drive down it without veering one way or the other. One way would mean hitting the rock face, the other a drop into the abyss. As people that know me well can testify, I have a limited capacity for concentration which was stretched to breaking point today! Luckily there were no puppies on the side of the road to distract me 😝.
At the close of the day we made our home on the edge of a forest. Bliss needed her walk so we ventured along a track leading into the trees. At one point Darren stepped off the main route to have a wee up a tree as boys do. and looking down noticed all around were wild blueberry bushes. Making sure I was nowhere near the spot Darren was stood just moments ago I picked a handful of lovely sweet fruit. We continued exploring and realised many of the trees were cherry, also bearing small but juicy sweet fruits for us to forage🍒. Heading back to Ivy we found a bench on the edge of the forest with a view over the valley to the mountains on the far side, where we sat for some time cuddled together appreciating our new life.Read more