The Admont monastery

Admont is a quiet little town in the Styrian mountains that, while pretty and a great base for exploring the Gesäuse National Park, wouldn’t normally be big enough to register much on a week or so’s visit to Austria. We have a pile of great friends there (why we do is a whole other story that…

A quick jaunt to Austria

It was our wedding anniversary this weekend, so I took Nicole away for a wee trip to Graz, Austria.  It was a secret, and Nicole didn’t know where we were going until we arrived at the gate at Stansted airport on Friday morning. We stayed with some wonderful friends of Nicole’s that she hadn’t seen…