The first time we saw the house was when we visited the area in autumn of 2012. We weren’t sure if our plans would work … we would have to go away and do our calculations and come back and see what we could do …
We’d been really disappointed a few months earlier when another house in the area was sold, before we could sell our house in the UK. It seemed like everything else was falling into place – but it wasn’t to be.
So we continued the search and specifically focussed this time on the village of Obertraun on Lake Hallstatt. Beforehand we had a wider search area but for us, nothing seemed to compare to the peace and quiet, the local attractions of Hallstatt, the lake, the Krippenstein mountains – and opportunities to walk, hike, cycle and ski – all on the doorstep!
