murtal

A short trip to southern Austria, Styria, the Mur valley. There, near the village of Fohnsdorf, I took up quarters. Fohnsdorf, a former mining settlement, is the most hideous, repulsive small town I know. Garden gnome collections in the front gardens are still the most harmless there. I fled to the mountains and the valleys in between. The return in the evening was bearable because I was accommodated in a stylish castle hotel 300 meters off the village. Even if a traditional Formula 1 track shines in new splendor in nearby Spielberg, the Mur Valley is far from being out of the crisis of the closed mine.