Ski week in Sölden, Österreich

Late 2018 we booked a week in Sölden to go skiing. So, 19th of January we started fron Bärlin and had a good drive, almost arrived too early.
The Sunnhäusl was nice, it costed us from Saturday to Saturday 588€ with breakfast. The bus stop was close, so no problem going to the slopes. The bus only went until 17:30 though. To the village was a 15 mins walk.
During our stay it was cold, with temperatures between -10 and -17. The beer needed 10 mins to cool down to drinking temperature.


And then we went on skiing, had beautiful weather, and when we were tired we just went to to spa.







And on Wednesday was cloudy and we drove to Innsbruck. Went to the tower, had gulyas soup and beer at Piano, and then went to the top.






Then we had only 2 days left of skiing. Every day my fingers were frozen even wearing one more pair of gloves under the ski gloves.





We also tried a couple of restaurants in Sölden.

First was pizzeria Salino, good pizza and good service, unfortunately no pics.
Then was Jati



Here we had Hamburger (not amazing). They had craft beer, one 0,33 glass costed from 5,2€.

Then we went to this black and orange bar cos it was rock&roll



0,33 beer glass started from 4,10€.


Skål!

But as any god thing must come to an end... we had to drive back. It seemed like the mountain would't want us to go



It was snowing heavily, we needed snow chains to cross the mountains back to Deutschland and a big Stau was waiting for us. Would have been better to stay there and ski and party and and and...

Bangkok Part 2

We flew back to Bangkok, stayed 2 days, and then to Auckland.

I booked a place in a shady area, I had no idea about. It’s called Nana, and apparently it’s some red light district. The hotel didn’t look so bad on the outside, but in the room smelled like cigarettes and the overall impression was: better not to touch anything. The room even offered condoms. I couldn’t sleep because the smell was hurting me. At 2am I called booking, canceled the next night and booked another hotel.

First evening we met my colleague and his wife, we ate in a touristic place and decided to go visit the lung of Bangkok next day, which we did.

We met at Phaya Thai BTS and took a taxi to the harbor, where a guy took us to a small boat. The boat ride was for free if we rented bikes from them, 80baht. Alright, let’s do it.

The island, also known as the lungs of Bangkok, is a quiet green place with concrete elevated paths.

It was pretty hard to find a taxi to take us back, apparently they don’t want to drive with the meter on, but after a while, I persuaded one and we went back.

That evening I went out with Louise and ate at Ethos, close to Khao San Road. Good, chill place, decent prices and service.

These 2 days were meant to relax and hangout by the pool, before our long flight to Auckland.

We stayed close to Democracy Monument

Buddha about to be sold

I can’t explain why I like it so much in Thailand. It’s the people, the food? And I found this song Krung Thep Maha Nakhon from Asanee-Wasan. 

Now off to Auckland