After we left Tufles, we drove around the town a few times and got a little lost because our GPS’s where malfunctioning. I say GPS as a plural because I was using three. The GPS in the car only had a map of Germany, so being in Austria, it only had the major roads. And using Nokia Maps on my Nokia XpressMusic, it couldn’t find a GPS signal. The third I was using Runkeeper on my Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc to track my location so I could see all the mistakes we tool – turning left instead of right. We also used the old fashion paper maps, but that didn’t really work as the loop I thought we drove around was a different loop of the road I thought we were at.
Nevertheless, what should only take 10 minutes took about an hour – but we eventually left the town. We could have taken the autobahn, but we chose not to and explore the towns instead.
Eventually, we made our way to Marostica to stay with some family over there.
Marostica is one of the few towns with the original wall completely surrounding the town centre
Shooting the Canon to stop it hailing
Getting into the night, around 10pm where it’s still daylight, there was a storm approaching. Then, for about 30 minutes, in the near-bye hill, a canon started blasting something into the sky. I am not 100% what is is, but apparently, every time they’ve done it, they’ve never had hail. The reason why they use it, because in the past, they have had hail stoles that are bigger than tennis balls.
