
While staying at Landhotel Martha I took a lesson in working with clay. The lesson took place in a former farmer’s house called Waldwerkstatt. Well, what should I create? A pot? A plate? A heart? A locomotive … That’s it!
You only see what you know (Goethe)

While staying at Landhotel Martha I took a lesson in working with clay. The lesson took place in a former farmer’s house called Waldwerkstatt. Well, what should I create? A pot? A plate? A heart? A locomotive … That’s it!

The hotel is situated at a street between Zell am See and Kaprun. The train station of the Pinzgau Railway is near the hotel so one can have a ride to the Krimml Wasserfälle on the spot. The hotel offers a spa area in the basement of a second building opposite the street.

Right next to the Zell am See railway station, I had this view of the Zeller See (Lake Zell) and the nearby mountains. During the cold winter months, it is frozen and used for winter sports like skating. In earlier times, it even supplied breweries with ice to cool their products.

Fun! On my trip to Zell am See, I stayed at the Hotel Tauernstüberl. This hotel used socks as “Do Not Disturb” signs at its room doors. This sock is a kind of pun. In German, “You are a lazy sock” means someone is a bit lazy.

You find this sundial on a building in the Austrian city of Zell am See. A rooster and an owl represent morning and evening. Whereas the painting seems modern, the town offers several buildings dating back to the Middle Ages.