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A Day Out In the Country.

Friends came at twelve thirty we, that is my wife and I got into their powerful BMW car and making ourselves comfortable, we relaxed as my friend the driver drove off to the nearby autobahn. Here on the Autobahn he opened up and we sped along at a fair pace. My wife sitting in the back seat with my friend’s wife started a conversation. It was today not so hot the storms that came yesterday with hailstones as big as hen eggs had caused much damage around the county, I occasionally put in the odd word, and mainly I spoke to my friend who was concentrating on his driving. We passed many holidaymakers enjoying the Austrian countryside. Fifty kilometres away my friend knew a country restaurant and this was our destination. It was a, for my wife and I an invitation to a drive into surprise land.

Boy was it a surprise suddenly my wife called out that was my Mother’s old weekend house that we have just passed. It was when Mother passed away we sold the Weekend house and took over Mum’s flat, the money for the week-end house we invested in the Flat. Everything was renewed, Bath, Kitchen Dining Room, Bedroom in fact the whole flat was redone I will not tell you what it cost us but there was not much change from the large sum of money that we were paid for the weekend House. The weekend house itself stood in the middle of some of the loveliest countryside that Austria has to offer. Then my friend pulled into a restaurant that was strangely familiar. It was the next village to where our weekend house stood. What a lovely surprise, this was a day out that we will both remember for a long time. The restaurant was under new management and all of the cooking was done with aid of fresh Herbs. I must admit I have not eaten such a wonderful meal ever in my long life. Even the beer was freshly home brewed from a brewer in one of the local villages. Such a beer was also out of this world. After my friend had paid for the meal I spoke to the lady of the house I congratulated her on her perfect cooking. Telling her that I have in my long life never ever eaten such a delicious meal. We left the restaurant happy and filled in a way that only a natural born cook using Natures own herbs could have cooked for us. The way back home was full of reminiscences as both my lovely wife and I, told our young friends about our knowledge of the small lovely clean villages that we went through until we reached the Autobahn again. I told them of the places where I had with my Father in law hunted the deer, the Pheasants and other wild life that is so plentiful here in the quiet countryside of Styria which is one of the many counties here in Austria. In my eyes the prettiest of them all, I must admit though that all of the other eight counties are well worth visiting and the Austrian hospitality is known and appreciated all over the world. We arrived safely home, my lovely wife made a nice cup of warm sweet tea and our two young friends drove home to their own home, we will se them again soon. I wonder where our next trip will be it cannot be such a surprise as today’s trip. I will let you all know, till then have a safe life from your scribbler Bern.