We were up early for breakfast (included with the price of the room) of semmels, jam, jelly, butter and your choice of drink (which is standard at all guest houses.) I really love these semmels and got so I eat two each morning! They are a round roll real hard and crispy on the outside but real soft on the inside. Brenda says they are baked fresh every day – no one ever serves left over ones!    

And Dixie and Beth you would love the good cold, cold water right out of the tap here. I can drink a quart without stopping, and the last 3 ½ days on our trip I really got thirsty, because there are no water fountains anywhere and when you ask for a glass of water in the restaurant (and you must ask, and be sure you ask for tap water otherwise they sell you bottled water) they bring you a small 6 oz glass of water!

Brenda and Tom had an appointment with the man who is going to build their house to go over the final plans so we got there at nine o’clock.  It only took 40 minutes and we are on way to Liechtenstein and Switzerland. At the place where Brenda and Tom saw the man about the house plans, they had a model of their house so we got to see it. It’s really going to be nice. They are supposed to start about July 1 – pending approval of plans here in Linz.

At Liechtenstein we stopped at the local bakery, the post office, a gift shop where I bought post-cards, a bank (Tom had to convert some schillings into Swiss Franks so we could buy stamp etc.) and then took a ride up the mountain where we could look down on the castle where the current Fűrst Franz Josef and Fűrstin Gina live. We spent about 1 ½ hour there, a delightful and charming little county.

Then we were on our way to Switzerland heading towards St. Moritz. First stop was at Heidi Alp where we drove up a winding road looking for Heidi’s Fountain, put there by the people of the village in honor of the author of “Heidi”. At last after three stops we found it in a little park. It was a stature of Heidi and a goat with a fountain. We stopped and got pictures of us in front of it.

Switzerland looks a lot like Austria, but I think in Austria the houses and farms looked cleaner, neater and painted better.

For lunch we decided to have a picnic so we stopped at a corner grocery store where Tom and Morris bought bread (fresh loaf – sorta Italian) sliced luncheon meat, chesses, potato chips, and drinks (warm and no ice). At the next village in the center of town we found a real nice spot – green grass – a nice park bench, running water in log trough (which most villages have, we guess that they used them a long time ago to water their horses?) and a new modern information center which had rest rooms. It was a real nice picnic.

Then we were on our way again. It was getting late (4 pm) and we had been driving on a high sharp curved roads (and narrow) and up and down for hours – we were actually getting sick in the back seat so we came across this village of Savognin and found the Hotel Pianta where we got rooms for the night. It was a very old hotel right on the main street of the village – it was a summer and winter resort and there were probably 12 hotels right in town but only 2 were open. The summer season starts June 6 here and everyone was getting ready for it but not everyone was open yet.

The rooms were clean and large but had to go out down the hall again to the W.C.!  We ate supper at the restaurant at the Hotel. Brenda and Tom got their special fondue and it looked really good. A pot of hot oil each, a plate of cubed beef and each a large plate filled with potatoes, vegetables, dips and pineapple and bananas!  Morris and I wished we would of gotten that too – but ours was good.    

We took a walk all around the town before supper. After we put the kids to bed we played Uno.

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