From living with self sustaining people, to a cow farm and into a car

The “planned” destination of this trip was reached and we found ourselves in Hallstatt, living in a shared home with some pretty incredible people.

Hallstatt reminds me very much of Popeyes village in Malta where there is a certain wonky charmingenes to the houses.

It was there where we were hosted by Sophie and Gabriel who are experienced travellers. We met Micheal and Benji who live with them and are at a school in Hallstatt, where it seems there’s a very renound school where people go get to learn how to build instruments. I was particularly impressed by Micheal who built a frikkin lute.

Our two days there were an absolute delight. From listening to live guitar and singing around a fire, to hiking and kayaking across the lake.

These guys were just brilliant in their way of living. Trying to go 0 waste and growing their own edible plants on the balcony, making their own cleaning products and truly living in the moment and enjoying all they do.

They shared all they had with us, which really made me feel so welcomed and at peace with this type of community living.

The following day brought us to Donnersbach where we were saved a beast of an uphill by our host for the night as he picked us up with his pickup truck and took us to his family run sustainable cow farm.

Once again the welcome we received from him and his family was such a warm one, that we quickly felt right at home.

Wolfgang recently returned from a 6 month hitchhiking adventure to China and back and had some pretty amazing stories and advice for us on travelling. He has receieved so much from strangers along his travels that he is trying to give back to the travelling community, and I can happily say that he really did give back to us.

Not only did he host us, but he also got us in touch with his cousin to help us out in the next village we found ourselves in.

Thank to Roland we found a new type of way to sleep which we were not expecting. A good shelter from the rain for the night.

If you ever come across my blog... thank you Roland :)

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Each day is truly going into the unknown. Even though it does cause a little anxiety and stress at some moments, the generosity of people we keep coming across from day to day is incredible.

I have to admit I was losing hope in humanity for a while, but after bike travelling for only 9 days, some of that hope is returning and I am extremely excited about so much more which I am yet to discover.