April 12, 2012

• Checking out a Warte

  What’s a “warte”?  It’s a lookout tower. I prefer to call it a Rapunzel Tower. And guess what? We have one about a 20 minute walk from our apartment!

  Libby and I decided to find this tower and see if it really existed. We hiked up the road behind our house. (It’s all uphill!) We came to a lovely park with all the lovely trees and bushes and grass you’d hope to see. The grass here is SO green! It’s like it was Photoshopped. 

  

   

  We came to a playground, but still, no Rapunzel tower. 

  

   

  Then we saw a building. Could this be it? It appeared to be a prayer shrine thing for Saint Barbara. You could light candles and such.

  

   

  It had some pretty views of Linz, so maybe?

  

   

  But the path kept going on, so we did. And we were rewarded. There it was!

       

   

  We climbed the spiral staircase

   

  

   

  and were rewarded with a wonderful, yet cloudy view of Linz. 

  

   

  And then it started raining.  So we went home and planned to come back another day. 

  Which we did.

         

   

  On our second trip, we discovered the exercise trail and had fun with that!

  Station One–Hug a Tree

   

   

  Station Two–Run through Swinging Tires

  

   

  Station Three–Hang Upside Down and Determine if “Thumbs Up” Should Be “Thumbs Down”

  

   

  Station Four–Ride a Seatless Unicycle

      

   

  Also, just in case you were wondering, Austrians don’t know how to take turns and wait in line. Not at all. 

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