Tim C .

Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :

    >Tim C. wrote:
    >> The Intersport shop in St.Anton/Arlberg charges between €37 and €47
    >> per day for a set.
    >Well ... That's St. Anton. :-) My girlfriend bought a pretty good
    >pair of brand new skis in February in Hochgurgl for 95 euro including
    >bindings and adjustment. They came in the 2005 design, but who cares?

End of season sale. You really can get some good deals then.
Yeah, Obergurgl is €22-36 / day.

My skis I bought in winter 1987.
My first snowboard in summer 1987. The newest one in 1993.
I'm not a slave of fashion, as you can see.
--
Tim C.

Tim C .

Following up to [email protected] :

    >-Where can I buy the stickers for Germany and Austria and for how much
    >(if you know)


Vehicles up to 3.5 Tonnes (not motorcycles).
1 year : € 72.60
2 months : € 21.80
10 days : € 7.60

You can get them at the border. All fuel stations, tobacconists and all
shops of the Austrian motoring clubs ÖAMTC and ARBÖ. Look for the
"vignette" sticker on the window or the till.

Also most German motorway service stations and the German motoring club
ADAC.
--
Tim C.

Tim C .

Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :

    >tile wrote:
    >> still it is nice not to have any speed limit..
    >In 2 % of the cases provided by reality, it is. In the rest, it's
    >much better for your nerves and wallet to set cruise control at 140
    >km/h and let ist roll.
    >According to my trip computer, I am regularly driving a higher average
    >speed on Austrian autobahns (with speed limit) than on German
    >autobahns (without speed limit).

I haven't actually clocked it, but that's may subjective opinion as well.
--
Tim C.

Martin

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:40:25 +0100, Tim C. <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :
    >>In nearly 30 years of using ATMs in Germany and Austria, I have't seen
    >>any of those dangerous pickpockets.
    >They're professionals, you won't see them they're too good. ;-)

LOL
--

Martin

Alex Heney

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:37:14 +0100, Tim C. <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :
    >>I'd calculate 25 to 30 euro a day, going down for more days. I
    >>understand you would like to rent once in Innsbruck for the whole time
    >>and take your equipment with you each day. Have a look at
    >>http://tinyurl.com/ycd7x7 and maybe http://www.letsrent.at/preise.htm
    >>for some more information.
    >The Intersport shop in St.Anton/Arlberg charges between �37 and �47 per day
    >for a set.
    >http://www.sport-alber.com/de/rent_preise.php

Expensive - but St Anton has a general reputation for expensive.

He will be looking in Innsbruck area.

Boerse in Innsbruck have prices varying from 21 Euros (basic) to 37
Euros (Premium)
<http://www.letsrent.at/preise.htm>

Or SkiRa in Igls have prices between 14.9 and 22.9 for the set
<http://www.skira.at/preise.htm>
--
Alex Heney, Global Villager
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom

Jens Arne Maennig

Tim C. wrote:

    > My skis I bought in winter 1987.

Rossignol Equipe 1, branded with "Offizieller Ski der Ski-WM
Saalbach-Hinterglemm", so I probably got them in 1990 or 1991. People
are sometimes smiling a bit about those long old fashioned things but
they stop smiling if they try to follow me downhill on teir wobbly
carvers. :-)

    > My first snowboard in summer 1987. The newest one in 1993.

Never tried it. Two major skiing accidents (also the reason of my
wonderful new shoulder) made me a bit less keen to experiments during
the last years.

    > I'm not a slave of fashion, as you can see.

AOL. However, I was thinking about a new pair of ski pants after my
1982 "Jethose" became a bit wretched in the meantime.

Jens

Martin

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:08:20 +0100, Jens Arne Maennig
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Tim C. wrote:
    >> Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :
    >>>In nearly 30 years of using ATMs in Germany and Austria, I have't seen
    >>>any of those dangerous pickpockets.
    >>
    >> They're professionals, you won't see them they're too good. ;-)
    >You would, however, still notice their activity afterwards. But maybe
    >they're so good that your money still appears to be present ...

My wife never sees them, when they steal her purse from her open
handbag.
--

Martin

Martin

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:42:26 +0100, Tim C. <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Following up to "coolblock" <[email protected]> :
    >>This post reminds me of a episode I had back in 1990 in Austria.I
    >>crossed the Austrian border about midnight and there wqs nobody at the
    >>crossing,it looked totally deserted.Anyway a couple days later I was
    >>driving on the autobahn and I happened into an area that actually had a
    >>speed limit and naturally I was exceeeding it and a nice policeman
    >>pulled me over.He spoke almost no English and right away he could tell
    >>I was clueless.He finally made me understand I needed a "sticker"...not
    >>a problem I gave him 30 or 40 US dollars and he waved me on and never
    >>bothered with the speeding infraction
    >You obviously were clueless.
    >You were probably being fined for the speeding offence.

or by a pickpocket wearing a home made uniform.
--

Martin

Martin

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:23:02 +0100, Tim C. <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :
    >>Tim C. wrote:
    >>> Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :
    >>>>In nearly 30 years of using ATMs in Germany and Austria, I have't seen
    >>>>any of those dangerous pickpockets.
    >>>
    >>> They're professionals, you won't see them they're too good. ;-)
    >>You would, however, still notice their activity afterwards. But maybe
    >>they're so good that your money still appears to be present ...
    >I said they were good.

They sound like a government tax organisation
--

Martin

Tim C .

Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :

    >Tim C. wrote:
    >> My skis I bought in winter 1987.
    >Rossignol Equipe 1, branded with "Offizieller Ski der Ski-WM
    >Saalbach-Hinterglemm", so I probably got them in 1990 or 1991. People
    >are sometimes smiling a bit about those long old fashioned things but
    >they stop smiling if they try to follow me downhill on teir wobbly
    >carvers. :-)

And they always get stuck at the bottom of those "schuss" sections which
then go uphill a bit. :-)



    >> My first snowboard in summer 1987. The newest one in 1993.
    >Never tried it. Two major skiing accidents (also the reason of my
    >wonderful new shoulder) made me a bit less keen to experiments during
    >the last years.

No, you don't want to try it with a dodgy shoulder - it's hard on the arms.
It's better for knees than skiing is though.

    >> I'm not a slave of fashion, as you can see.
    >AOL. However, I was thinking about a new pair of ski pants after my
    >1982 "Jethose" became a bit wretched in the meantime.

Jethose ?!! LOL! They were out of fashion before even I started. Except
in places like St. Anton, Kitzbühel and Sölden where the upper crust never
really was in touch with the real world.

--
Tim C.

Tim C .

Following up to Alex Heney <[email protected]> :

    >He will be looking in Innsbruck area.

Maybe, he didn't say. He might want to hire sets in each of the places he
visits, and as St. Anton was one of the places listed .... Who knows?
--
Tim C.

Tim C .

    >>You obviously were clueless.
    >>You were probably being fined for the speeding offence.
    >or by a pickpocket wearing a home made uniform.

It's not unheard of. :-) It's vitally important to get a receipt.
--
Tim C.

Jens Arne Maennig

Tim C. wrote:

    > Jethose ?!! LOL! They were out of fashion before even I started.

You start getting old when you have the first oldies in their original
cover in your record collection. Remember vinyl?

Jens

MoonMan

Martin wrote:
    > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:23:02 +0100, Tim C. <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >> Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :
    >>> Tim C. wrote:
    >>>> Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :
    >>>>> In nearly 30 years of using ATMs in Germany and Austria, I have't
    >>>>> seen any of those dangerous pickpockets.
    >>>> They're professionals, you won't see them they're too good. ;-)
    >>> You would, however, still notice their activity afterwards. But
    >>> maybe they're so good that your money still appears to be present
    >>> ...
    >> I said they were good.
    > They sound like a government tax organisation

No, with Governments you *know* your money's gone :(


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--
Chris *<:-)

Tim C .

Following up to Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> :

    >Tim C. wrote:
    >> Jethose ?!! LOL! They were out of fashion before even I started.
    >You start getting old when you have the first oldies in their original
    >cover in your record collection. Remember vinyl?

Still got loads!
--
Tim C.