Pickup of our freshly bottled favourite wine (Pinot Grigio) + an appointment with the landscaper + an available kidsitter for home = three good reasons for an October short trip to Leutschach in Southern Styria!
Another safe short trip in times of Covid-19 led us back again to Leutschach at the South Styrian Wine Road in Austria. Four days of rest, calming down, (sun) bathing, campfire, breakfast under the cherry tree and lots of great wine at Sandra and Karli's winery. We felt refreshed!
Summertime in Southern Styria: We were back in Leutschach, at Sandra and Karli's winery, savoring August's best wheather, hiking the Heiligengeist-Gorge, sipping Karli's wine and enjoying another week full of relaxation and recreation!
The end of our autum trip through Austria led us to Graz, capitol of Styria and Austria's second largest city. We paid a visit to the old town, climbed ap the sun-kissed Schloßberg and had a fantastic Styrian schnitzel, breaded in pumpkin seeds, in a local brewery restaurant.
For the fourth time this year we set up our tent in Leutschach, at the winery of our endearing friends and hosts, Sandra and Karl. Purpose this time: to check out the wheather conditions in southern Styria in November. Our hopes got satiesfied - as one might see by the following pictures of the Styrian wine route. Maybe one day we want to settle down here for retirement...
Not only that we had run out of our favourite wine (pinot gris, "Grauburgunder"). We also needed sun after a long dismal winter - needed it badly! So we followed the invitation of Sandra and Karl and drove back to Leutschach in Southern Austria for the Easter holidays to witness the Styrian style of celebrating Jesus' resurrection. But besides Easter bonfire, egg dyeing, consecreation of groceries ("Gott, segne die Kräuter und den Kren!" - not really translatable), lots of hiking, fantastic vistas and excellent wine tasting: above all we experienced the warmth and hospitality of our hosts, who let us forget our everyday solicitudes. Thank you so much, Sandra and Karl, Irene, Maria, Sophie, Hanna and Katja of the Pronegg-Kristeindl winery!
