The phone by my bedside erupted into noisy life at 3 this morning and eventually drove me into going through to the lounge and disconnecting the line.

It may have been the BT engineers working hard through the night to fix the phone or more likely a repeat of the manic ringing that had followed my reporting of a fault earlier in the evening.  In either case it was to say the least a pain in the neck when I was still feeling ready for a good rest after a week's ski-ing.

Obertauern was lovely although extremely short of anything to do if you don't ski or if the weather is bad but fortunately the weather was great and the hotel had a smart little pool to relax in after coming off the slopes.

Some scenes from the Beatles film Help were filmed here and they've got a shop window of memorabilia that you can see in my homemade postcard.  The autobahn isn't a real one of course but a nice long wide comfortable slide down the hill.  Very much appreciated at the end of the day.