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<\/p>\nThe Hotel Alpina by night …<\/p>\n
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Roast chestnuts and mulled wine (gl\u00fchwein) by the Christmas tree …<\/p>\n
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… and the “sun deck” is being cleared of snow after a heavy fall – automatically!<\/p>\n
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The lobby.<\/p>\n
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Table 46 – Family Tapp’s table.<\/p>\n
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Our Tyrolean dressed waitresses Jana and Natalie …<\/p>\n
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And now for some food!\u00a0 The cereal bar with 16 nuts\/seeds\/fruit additions …<\/p>\n
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The “oven” always had a variety of hot pastries and croissants to start the day.<\/p>\n
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… and the “snacks” at 3pm were not to be missed …<\/p>\n
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One day Glenda and Linda went to “cookery school ” to try their hand at making apfel strudel.\u00a0 And it appeared with the afternoon snacks the next day!<\/p>\n
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The sweet buffet at the end of the gala dinner had to be seen to be believed …<\/p>\n
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Don’t tell Lauren but we have a chocolate fountain tonight!<\/p>\n
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And the cheese was particularly stretchy …<\/p>\n
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… but Jack had some serious competition in this event!<\/p>\n
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We celebrated Jack’s eighth birthday – one day late.<\/p>\n
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Glenda being escorted in the scary gondola!<\/p>\n
“Smile please, Jack!”<\/p>\n “I AM smiling!”<\/p>\n The boys enjoyed collecting “snowballs”…<\/p>\n While Grandpa sits it out …<\/p>\n … while contemplating how many children are wedged in the slides which run straight into the snow drifts!<\/p>\n Our walk into the hills via Zirben Alm (a restaurant\/bar at the bottom of a ski lift) got us on the path to the summit.\u00a0 We followed it for a kilometre or so until the path got a little “interesting”, close to steep drops.<\/p>\n The piste bashers…<\/p>\n … leave the snow beautifully patterned …<\/p>\n But all too soon it’s time to head for home…<\/p>\n Our last glimpse of the snow covered mountains…<\/p>\n So there you have it – a photo blog!<\/p>\n Happy Christmas everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Hotel Alpina by night … Roast chestnuts and mulled wine (gl\u00fchwein) by the Christmas tree … … and the “sun deck” is being cleared of snow after a heavy fall – automatically! The lobby. Table 46 – Family Tapp’s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria-december-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191215_142343-3991x1940-1024x498.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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