8/28/11 Sunday before school

I admit readily, I am a workaholic, but even I have never had to work up until the day before school to be ready for the first day of school...but I have now. Got up this morning, started working on some things for the classes that I may or may not have all year long, ended up going over to the school for a bit so I could make copies of the few things I was sure I would be using, then hitched a ride with Deb back to lodging. Nothing really exciting in all of that (if you were excited by it, you need to seek some serious help). But rather than just taking me back to lodging we took a short detour.

We drove up the 270 for a short distance and drove through the village of Hohenecken, then up to this little lake (not a clue what its name is, but you can get little boats etc there)...anyway, there was this cute little hotel that is right next to the lake. It is called the Seehotel Gelterswoog...maybe the lake is named Gelterswoog. Point being cute setting. I guess when the school secretary was thinking of places for me to stay she thought of it, but then I would have been more dependent on a ride plus its three times as much as what I am paying and considering that I would probably just be there for sleeping...makes sense to be where I am for now. All of this is on the route to Queidersbach, which is someplace I am considering living at...well actually so is Hohenecken...time will tell.

At any rate, I digress, on the way back I noticed a castle or at least the ruins of a castle (I hadn't seen any until this point in my adventure). So we turned back around and went through part of Hohenecken to look at things a little better (but we were limited on time since Deb needed to get home and that is 30 minutes away from my lodging). So this village is quite cute. All the European houses (go figure in Europe), the cobblestone streets and walkways, a strange fixation with big fish on their buildings (from what I understand that is the mascot for this area... don't ask me, I am the newbie)...long story short it was just very quaint.

I didn't take too many pictures, after all we were just skimming through and I can return another time and do that, but here are a few from today's excursion. I guess you have to hike up to the castle ruins to get a good view.