The Lap of Luxury

6/24/08 Seefeld, Austria

Okay. Today we stayed at Alpine Camping and I don’t know how else to start but today that the bathrooms were nicer than ours at home!

What a beautiful place. I don’t think I’ve been to a nicer place. It truly was the lap of luxury. The standard mode for camping over here is the shower/ restroom areas include a public basin area, private stalls for basins, and private stalls for showers. I think of all the times I’ve camped back home when all you get is a scratched up mirror, filthy floors, a 2”X 6” shelf, maybe a hook, and you call it roughing it.

Screw roughing it. I should have gone to Austria sooner.

Our day was spent at the Olympia Village Pool, remnants of the 1976 Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck. And yes it was the nicest pool I’ve ever been too as well. Complete with indoor / outdoor pool area, tan booth, water slide to break any bothersome bones you might have, and shower/ locker areas. The Euros are very environmentally sound and waste neither water nor energy and this facility completely exploited this.

The land and scenery continued to be lush, and we often saw flowers thriving where they would otherwise be dead in our hands. The kids loved the pool of course, and so did mom, dad, Aunt Heather and Nana. Papa Rick napped and found camaraderie with the Europeans.

We could have chosen massages, or saunas if we had chosen as they were available.

The Lap of Luxury indeed.

-Gabe