A roller coaster ride through the vineyards.
A test is a test and I didn't have the heart to refuse a lessons, despite the inclement conditions. Unfortunately I had to go to the top of the Weinberg and just like all roads lead to Rome so all roads had an incline today. Yikes not much fun in this weather. Most of the roads had ambitions to become ice rinks.
I was inching my way slowly down the slope in first gear and thus could do little stops to take photos of a dusted over vineyard.
One has got to hand it to snow...it does clad everything in layers of elegance and timelessness. Although for us it is close to a road crisis, in other parts of Austria they would laugh at our antics with such a pithy amount of snow!
The sun was just about to say goodnight but decided to give an encore of seasonal beauty first.
The snow isn't actually the problem when it has freshly fallen. The midday sun liquidating the road's cover and then solidifying a few hours later causes many a motorist to rethink excursions and routes. Living atop a hill is not for the faint of heart during winter.
Every now and again my wheels would slide a smidgeon and give my heart a jolly good workout! Gosh, tomorrow morning is going to be adventurous if nothing else...who said rural bliss was boring?
Biggi
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