First of all we would like to wish you a Very Happy New Year! Hopefully, despite the doom and gloom in the media, the Mayan predictions of impending disaster and the increasingily strange global weather patterns, we will look back on 2012 as another great year for biking, hiking and generally enjoying the Carinthian hospitality! [...]

Chapter 6 –  Family And Other Animals With apologies to Gerald (Durrell for the uninitiated – google it, oh alright I know life is short, so you would find: When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and [...]

…………but in battalions.  Bit like buses really, wait ages for one and then lots come at once.  I have just posted chapters 3 and 4 of this year which due to a misunderstanding (mine, naturally) have just been sitting there like Patience on a monument waiting for something to happen to them (and a slight [...]

Not wishing to confuse, dear reader – but probably failing dismally already! – Jane has finally got round to starting to update her blog from June/July and to fill all you lucky people in with things you may never have realised you needed to know about! Anyhow she is working up to the present day, [...]

It may be touching the mid thirties on the terrace in the middle of the day – which is just a tad TOO warm to be sitting out there for long! – but by night its a pleasant mid twenties and the perfect spot for catching up on al the day’s news and getting to [...]

This week the geocache hidden by our friend Monika & Achim was found and for the first time someone came in to claim their ‘surprise’ – a large Guinness — by giving the code word (which we can’t tell you, because  you have to find the cache too!) Well done Stefan! Share/weitersagen:

As our latest bikers wave a fond farewell, promising to be back again soon, we are starting to wind up towards the biggest weekend of the year so far – our first international biker meet here in Malta, & with guests from the UK, Ireland, Germany, Holland, New Zealand and of course Austria, expected, it [...]

Now that we have help in the kitchen (and Jane arriving tomorrow to improve things even further!) John is ready to start offering his guided tours for anyone who is interested in such things. He had a bit of a ‘practice’ session on Saturday with our German guests and was pleased with how things went [...]

Biker Meet 3 days July 1st to 4th 2011 Exciting developments! Have just agreed with local internet radio station eventradio.fm that they will broadcast live from our biker meeting on July 2nd. Lots more details to follow but hope you will all tune in and send your music requests via our Facebook page, our twitterwall [...]

What a beautiful evening! And according to the weather forecast its going to be fabulous all weekend. Which is really lucky because this is just about the last weekend we will have to enjoy the sunshine before the season really kicks off! After spending a lot of time catching up with all the pre-season chores, [...]