This comes of running a hotel – just as summer finally arrives, you start thinking about Autumn! The Autumn months here are glorious – sunny warm days in reds and golds. Perfect for walking and cycling or just sightseeing. And the flights are cheaper. To try and encourage people over we are having an Autumn [...]
Monthly Archive for July 2009
Unexpected blessings
One of the best things about running this sort of business is the way things can turn around so unexpectedly. Yesterday was a very quiet Sunday, with not a lot happening and then suddenly we had 2 unexpected events that changed the whole day. First we had the arrival of unexpected guests – the family [...]
Dancing in the Streets!
Thursday night is party night – or so it seems! Yesterday our regular music evening for our bus group guests took a new turn and Malta saw some of us dancing in the streets – a very new experience! The musicians enjoyed themselves so much they played for an extra 90 minutes and were rewarded [...]
Matt's exciting day
We had a bit of a celebration yesterday – Matt heard he had passed his degree course with a 2:1 – a great success and one that would earn him the much coveted title of ‘Magister’ here. So out with the champagne! And all this despite having had to rescue him earlier from having driven [...]
Interesting times
We are currently following closely the debate in the Carinthian press about the state of tourism. The impact of the economic crisis plus some really bad weather is taking its toll on numbers coming here and the politicians are all putting forward their ideas about what should be done. The regional head of tourism appears [...]
An interesting weekend
Our turkish biker guests! Well what a lot to tell! Our weekend has been a great mixture of meeting new people and interesting events. Our international clientele for Saturday night all conspired to be great guests! Dag & Karin from Göteborg turned out to be social workers so we had loads in common – they [...]
A new staff member and more goodbyes!
Well the Irish bikers left us today having had weather which at times made them feel very at home. Nonetheless they have enjoyed their stay and left for pastures new (Garmisch Partenkirchen and then Lake Garda!) saying they hope to be back next year for a week’s stay touring this area properly. And we have [...]
