Zillertal

We had a nice excursion into the Zillertal today. On the way, we met a long-haired pig and a cute cat. The pig let me take his picture, and the cat came over to us and let Jim and Veronika pick her up. She was young and friendly and very cute. We drove all the way down the beautiful Zill Valley to the town of Mayrhofen, where we had lunch in a 440-year old restaurant called "Zum Greina." I had what has become my favorite Tyrolean dish, Blunzengröstl, i.e., blood sausage with potatoes - this time it had sauerkraut mixed in. Very yummy.


Then we drove into a side valley, the Gerlostal. It was also very scenic, as you can see from the photos of both valleys. The broad valley is the Zillertal. In the Gerlostal, we drove through the pretty little ski town of Gerlos. We headed toward the waterfalls of Krimml. But as we got close, it turned out that the waterfalls were farther away than we thought, and frozen. Also it would have been in the shade, icy and cold to walk there. So we went back to Gerlos and instead hiked up to a mountain restaurant called the Almstüberl where we had coffee and then hiked down. By that time, the sun was setting. You can see some of the twilight photos.