Most of this part of my trip i don't remember ! This was the highlight and the main reason i organized this last trip . Some time ago Rainer came up with the idea of us spending New Years Eve together and go to the Spengler Cup which is in Davos,Switzerland ... along the lines of organizing this trip we figured that Davos was way way way too expensive and it is ! So first Daz had booked us a place in Liechtenstein , which in hindsight we wish we took because it was right near the beautiful rink we played on . We decided Austria was a safe haven for our wallets and it is much cheaper then Switzerland and Liechtenstein .
When i got to our hotel in Feldkirch i was already drunk , after my game in Peissenberg,Germany i did a little celebrating which Timo kinda started me off . He encouraged me to drink a few for the ride when we took some extra beers from the rink with us . Hey if the beer is just sitting there nice and cold guess what , I'm gonna drink it LOL . So yeah the first night was an utter write off , i got smashed ended up drinking in a casino with 2 of my best friends on this planet and really its nothing new with any first night . Yeah i know i just saw Rainer 4 days ago , and Timo a week ago but we were together and yeah it was the beginning to another part of this adventure . I went to bed at 8 am :) 
Really we didn't spend the majority of our time here in Feldkirch . It was kinda like our home base as we were there for 5 nights and in that time we went to Switzerland twice and once to Liechtenstein .... technically 2 times as we had to drive through it to get to Grusch , not too sure if the train went that way . Of course i was really hungover on that trip too :P Feldkirch is a nice town , pretty quiet for the most part . Its tough to get a good meal there . Most restaurants don't open until 5 pm which we learned on my first hungover search for food ... and there is no McDonald's or any other typical fast food joints , which is a good thing but at times like these i will take greasy junk food in a heart beat ! The one night we had a really good meal there was on New Year's Eve , we had a reservation to eat dinner at Castle Schattenburg ( http://www.schattenburg.cc/ ) check it out . I had the ultimate schnitzel , biggest one i have ever come across and i have to thank my buddy Timo for asking them to slap some slices of bacon on top ... that was cool buddy :)  |
As i said we didn't spend all too much time in Feldkirch , really we spent most of our time sleeping off hangovers there . It was a good home base , the hotel we stayed at was great too since it had a casino in it that we could drink at all night LOL . Check out the hotel we stayed at , it is good for travellers like us :) http://www.hotel-baeren.at/ . The staff and the rooms there are all excellent ... we weren't bothered at all even when we were partying until the wee hours of the morning . Hotel Baren gets 2 thumbs up !
At the end of it i would really like to thank everyone that was there with me , making this stay here absolutely memorable ... well what i can remember was great LOL :P I am still surprised that we never encountered or were contacted by the Feldkirch Chiefs , i played for them in 2011 in Cortina , Italy ... you would think they would want to at least say hi . Oh well , that is the life of travelling meeting people and moving on . I try not to move on but i can accept that others do . Feldkirch is a nice quiet town , if you are in Austria check it out but try to see all the other great cities in other countries near here to make your trip a little cheaper .
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