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Nice picture LHBrown WOW good thing you told us it was from their website - we might have thought you had a babe or was it you??? - never know if we are talking to male or female ...ie fredhashaway - anyway thanks for the input Bad Gastien came up again ..always trying If we get it I think we will go next May - no skiing but I'm sure the Alps would be beautiful - again any ideas for expanding our trip? The innsbruck day trip sounds great - any other ideas to stay a few more days? Take Care Thanks for the GREAT posts...Funtimes

Hi funtimes,

Wish it was me in the Hotel Edelweiss picture, wish I was that young again.... I am female, but you have to add quite a few year... that clarified, here are a few more suggestions for your trip to Bad Gastein... I mentioned the Grossglockner pass. Here are some pictures of it
http://www.climbing-experience.net/i...ockner%204.jpghttp://www.chem.uga.edu/dluhy/pictures/P8020014.JPG

You asked about how best to extend the 5 days at the Gruener Baum in Bad Gastein. I suggest you look at the 4 day LL auction package for SLH of Schloss Fuschl at Lake Fuschl. It is located just a few miles south of Salzburg. We stayed there some years ago when it was still a R&C. Wonderful place, a former cardinal's residence, it was very plush then and the current chef makes headlines with his food creations...
http://www.eugendorf.at/bilder/e-car...oss_Fuschl.jpg

From Schloss Fusch, you can visit the famous Wolfgang See. And you can also easily visit Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, and maybe even take in a concert... But also Berchtesgaden with its Salt Mines in Germany is just over the boarder a few miles away. You can visit the salt mine. They outfit vistors in the traditional miners garb, then you board a mining train and in you go into the mine. Where the train lets you off they hand you a felt cushion and down you go on a 50 feet high slide and when you get down there, you board a boat where they guide you over an underground lake. Pretty neat stuff and well worth a visit, especially if you are "young at heart"... www.berchtesgaden.com/e/cities/berchtesgaden/salt/mines.htm
http://www.sallerhof.com/bild/hallein02.jpghttp://www.berchtesgaden.de/data/med...43b40d%7D.jpeghttp://www.sallerhof.com/bild/hallein03.jpg

There is also Hitler's Eales Nest perched on top of a mountain

http://greyfalcon.us/pictures/EagleNest02.jpghttp://www.villagok.dk/brickoven/june2005/4.jpg

overlooking the Koenigsee, Germany's smallest Alpine Lakes, ringed by high mountains like the "Watzmann and his 7 sons", and the cloister of Saint Bartholomae which can only reached by boat. www.koenigsee.com
http://www.ente.at/images/head/koenigsee.jpg
I think the Salzburg/Berchtesgaden/Koenigsee area is a wonderful area to explore, and as I said, LL has a nice 4-day package at Schloss Fuschl at the Fuschl See.