We woke up in St Anton on March 6 after a huge sleep to recover from our jetlag. Day 1 in St Anton we decided to get everything sorted to carry us through our 3 weeks in Austria.
First things first, off to the Ski Shops! I needed to organise some Ski Boots as a priority. After speaking with Marco (our landlord!) for advise on the best shop to visit, we headed into the middle of St Anton to Intersports to check out their boot selection and get a fitting. After a couple of hours of customised fitting by an Austrian Boot Fitter I came out the other end with a slick pair of pretty, new, brown ski boots. Mariya loves them!
Onto the Ski Testing! I knew the type of Ski I wanted to purchase this time around so we had to waunder around quite a few shops to find a place that stocked the ones I was interested in. After many hours of browsing we found a place that had 3 of the 4 skis I wanted to try and a suggestion on another ski I hadn't considered. So March 7 will see me testing some ski's to figure out what I like!
With the Boots and Skis sorted it was now onto bigger and better things, food shopping!! We found a local Spa supermarket on the main street and ducked in to see what Austrian delicacies we could indulge in over the coming weeks. So we grabbed some local food and headed home for the day to relax and prepare for the next big day.
Oh yea, for lunch we had a hotdog and an Austrian beer at a little hole in the wall take away. Om nom nom, it was bloody fantastic, it appears the Austrian beer called "Fohrenburger Stiftle" is very similar to a Carlton middy, not a bad drop!
For dinner we dropped into one of the first Pubs built in St Anton and had some traditional Austrian chow for dinner. Mariya had a weird Austrian stir fry consisting of pork, potato and onion; very weird but surpisingly tasty. I had venison with Austrian dumplings in a mushroom and onion gravy, with cranberry and pear on the side! What a weird combo, but also a winner. However, Mariya wasn't a big fan, she thought it was too sweet, but you know me and my sweet tooth!
We headed home for another early night and plenty of sleep for a huge next day.
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