On the Road with Moby-Dick

We rented two wooden boats in Altaussee. They look like Venetian gondolas. The boats, or similar ones, were used in the old day to transport salt around the lake. Now they are rented out, for a large sum, to local tourists—including a gondolier, who uses a rowing oar to navigate across the lake. We skipped the gondolier and the oar and used the motor instead. It was a very cold day and we needed to […]