Schlitterer See Café & Restaurant — Schlitterer, Austria
Schlitterer, Austria 🇦🇹
I was blessed to have the opportunity of a family vacation in the summer of 2019. It was greatly timed before all the pandemic and lockdowns that happened six months later. It was a time for all of us, my family, to get some fresh break and to bond, like never before. It has been almost six years since my last travel plans to Europe. So, a travel to this beautiful continent was much needed and in a perfect timing.
I took the chance in this trip to explore a new country I have never visited before; Austria, the land of enchantment. There was lots of places to visit, but I decided to limit my 2-week stay in two of the Austrian states: Salzburg and Tyrol. Even those two are vast and beautiful to hardly cover in two weeks. But, like I usually do in this kind of trips, I hunt for a lodging in a spot that can allow me to explore the surroundings easily by car.
Schlitters is a municipality in the Schwaz district in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Schlitters is a charming village made up of houses and farmsteads dotted across the landscape close to the start of the Zillertal Valley at an altitude of 548 m.
The village includes Schlitterberg, which lies around 400 metres higher up and can only be reached via Rotholz in the Inn Valley. The 1,400 inhabitants enjoy an excellent quality of life with plenty of outdoor sports and activities to choose from. In summer the idyllic swimming lake with a tennis court, football pitch and adventure playground is a popular meeting place. Another great spot to cool off is the Schlitterer Wasserfall waterfall at the end of the Öxelbachtal Valley. Schlitters itself has a comprehensive network of walking, hiking and mountainbiking trails. In winter it is just a short drive to the large Zillertal Arena ski resort. Popular attractions in the Zillertal Valley include the Zillertalbahn steam railway.
— Tyrol Web
In every part of Austria, you will always find a place to have fun and enjoy your time, for adults and kids alike. It is like a general theme of the country, along with the beautiful mountains and lakes that you cannot seem to easily visit them all in a short, or even a long, trip. Austria’s attention to tourism is similar to that you can find in Switzerland, but hardly possible to find in other surrounding countries.
Schlitterer See Café & Restaurant — Pin 📍
In this post, I decided to pick one of the towns that is charmingly beautiful. It was not more than 8 kilometers of my stay, so it was easily accessible with a short 10-minute drive. I kind of stumbled upon it by chance. I was driving up the way from my stay for almost a week during my stay in this lovely region of Tyrol state. One day, I explored a place on the map that showed this small beautiful lake called “Schlitterer See” with a cafe and restaurant nearby. I selected it as a destination and simply drove. When I arrived, I was so stunned by the beauty of the lake, the park besides it, and the cafe.
“THE IDEAL PLACE TO RELAX AND ENJOY.”
As the name suggests, the Café & Restaurant Schlitterer See is located directly on the Schlitters bathing lake and is only a 5-minute drive from the main road. The spacious sun terrace and the modern restaurant invite you to a cozy dinner. The menu ranges from home-style cooking to Italian pizza.
— seecafe-schlitters.at
The kids loved it more than anything. We had rented bikes in this leg of our trip, so they had the opportunity to enjoy their time cycling around the park at times, and spending other times in the park playground. It was early September, the weather was great, cloudy and cool, with a hint of Autumn breeze in the air.
Keep It Simple
I tend to plan a bit more extensive compared to others when traveling abroad. You will usually find me locating the sights and activities around a region, and then decide to lodge in a spot that can give me the opportunity to explore them easily. You will find me listing a dozen of places and attractions only to find me picking 4-5 that are possible to tour in a short leg of my stay. To an extent, I tend to complicate it a little with a lot of planning and researching.
However, I learned also to keep it simple. I started doing this more often lately, by simply having an open-day schedule, no plans attached. In this open style, I would simply vacate a whole day without any plans or bookings. I might go around with the car exploring and stopping as needed. I would ensure that we have the basics with us when it comes to snacks and drinks. Add to that having basic elements of entertainment along, like balls, skates, scooters, or bicycles.
This habit of open-day style allowed me to spend a lovely day in Schlitters See. We had rented bicycles in this part of the state, spotted a location worth exploring, stopped by and unloaded our fun with us. No bookings, no overhead, no planning, simply just being and doing. Keeping things simple, at least in parts of your schedule helps you ease the tension, and exploit opportunities as they arise. Stumbling upon this lovely city is still remembered well by my family. We had an unforgettable experience compared to those heavily planned and booked attractions.
“Keeping things simple” doesn’t apply only to your travel plans. It also applies to your normal living days at home and at work. I have learned that going out with the kids on the weekends have little to do with planning and organizing, and more to do with exploring and exploiting. I found that going with them and looking for a bonding experience is more important than getting the details pinned down a head. Experience wins over materialistic tangibles.
The same goes for work. For instance, I developed a habit of leaving Sundays unplanned —Sunday being the first workday in our week, technically rendering it the open day of my week. I would leave it free as much as a I can from business meetings and engagements. It allows me to use it as a buffer for extreme emergencies, which I have very little of. It also becomes a day that I can explore and use based on the theme of the week. Sunday, the first day of the workweek, has since become my favorite day.
The "Keep It Simple" Book: 50 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life and Work
Moving from full-fledged complicated planning to a simple spontaneous experience allows me to enjoy my time better. Keeping it simple is much needed, especially when we feel overwhelmed or when things feel out of control. It is simple rule that helps when life or work gets complicated. A book that greatly taps into this topic is called “The "Keep It Simple" Book: 50 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life and Work” by Simon Tyler. It is a very light book, with bite-sized “simple notes” that help you pause and uncomplicate.
The "Keep It Simple" Book: 50 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life and Work
Leading business coach Simon Tyler has spent many years successfully helping hundreds of individuals to overcome the complexity of their business and personal lives, and instead, focus on what is essential and productive. This compact book contains 50 practical tips and techniques to inspire and provoke you to review your life, change old habits and enhance your life by "keeping it simple". Each tip also contains a lesson or exercise that will challenge consensus thinking, break through barriers and redefine connections through the power of attitude. This is a book that will simplify your life and help you achieve your goals.
The book poses simple and probing questions about everyday life and work. It is a simple read, that you can finish in a single 2-hour setting. Yet, it is packed with actions and exercises that you might find more interesting to contemplate and try over a period of time, to the make the most out of it. Here are a few quotes to get you a hint of what the book is about.
“Take a moment for the incessant energy to slow down, to give yourself a sense of perspective, to get some height and allow a brief overview of what's going on, to re-engage all mental systems. Just a few minutes - that might be all it takes.”
— Simon Tyler, The "Keep It Simple" Book: 50 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life and Work
“To retreat is to go back, reverse or return. It also refers to an escape, a time away from everyday hustle and bustle to reflect and review. I suggest you apply both definitions as potential strategies to simplify complicated and difficult situations you face.”
— Simon Tyler, The "Keep It Simple" Book: 50 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life and Work
“Your choices are vast, even though you may spend most of your time unaware of the available options as you follow the same habitual choosing process, perhaps harbouring a muffled complaint that things just don't seem to get better.”
— Simon Tyler, The "Keep It Simple" Book: 50 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life and Work
“Have you been in situations or places where you would rather be somewhere else? Were your thoughts and attention elsewhere? Have you been at an event, meeting or in a situation that simply wasn't pushing your buttons, but it was not appropriate for you just to walk away?
In such situations, you have become a person of two minds. You're less than fully effective, your concentration is impaired, your creativity is hindered, your mood shifts (in the wrong direction), you are not fully present and you're probably less fun to be with. It is simply not a good place.”
— Simon Tyler, The "Keep It Simple" Book: 50 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life and Work
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