By Emmie and Richard

Once upon time in a far away land, 10 princes, 3 princesses and 3 wicked step nannies left the land down under to sit on their gluteus maximus' for 24 consecutive hours.

The Vic/Tassie crew; Kate, Phil M, Phil G, Richard, Tom and Talis flew from Melbourne Airport to Kuala Lumpar whilst the NSW Crew; Emmie, Roz, Ben, Ian, Jono, Chris, Karl, Wayne and Geoff flew from Sydney. We all arrived in KL about 9:30pm on Saturday evening. A couple of hours at the airport and we where boarding for our final leg to Zurich, a long haul of approximately 12 hours.

Zlatan was waiting at Zurich airport for us when we arrived at 6:30 am on Sunday morning. A couple of minor delays at Zurich with picking up the cars but finally we packed the vechiles and loaded the boats we were on our way to Otez for our first overnight stay. It has been really hot in Austria and the snow melt has made the Otez river a raaging torrent. Everyone was fairly tied and slept on the way to Otez, except the drivers.

After some lunch at the accommodation it was up to the Piburger See to do a flatwater session. After a long hard training session we went back to the Feelfree resort for our evening meal. We needed to stay up until at least 10pm (still day light) to help ward off Jetlag. Everyone is well and happy and settling well in their new home.

See you tomorrow for the next instalment, do not forgrt to check out the pics.