It lies deep in the Austrian Alps in the Ötztal and boasts some of the highest Alpine massifs. Sölden is a typically tiny podunk alpine town, but in the winter it burgeons with the skiing and snowboarding elite of Europe. Austere and, well, cold, it has a quiet but awesome beauty, with rumbling undertones of mystery. It was in this area that Ötzi, the 4500 yr old glacier mummy, was found by a hiking couple at the edge of a melting glacier.
Up with the gondola
The little dorf of Sölden
Mittlestation
The requisite cross on the peak.
SnowAngel
Noooooo! Don't take even ONE MORE STEP!!!!
Our goal today was to find the Hoffler Klinik (the outpost for the villain's daughter in the upcoming new Bond movie, SPECTRE) which we found out in reality is the Ice Q restaurant at the top of the Gaislachkogl peak, which can be reached by gondola out of Sölden.
We found it.
My tribute to Bond (click the play arrow)
What "Hoffler Klinik" looks like, inside and out:
Entrance
The menus
Look closely......
What's actually inside. A restaraunt!
Up to the penthouse terrace.
Penthouse terrace
Heartshaped pond
The entire scene at the top.
See the filming of SPECTRE on the Gaislachkogl above Sölden HERE.
See the first official teaser trailer for the movie HERE.
Bond atop Gaislachkogl.
And after all that, we went HERE to take off the chill.
Yup, this place really exists. So Bondian!!
OK, so this in winter...
Here is what we experienced.
They are thermal baths! Like a Jacuzzi. Ahhhh.
There is an inside and outside part. Thermal baths are fairly common around the Alps, but this one had some serious je ne sais quoi!
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