Every time I plan to travel to the mountains, I can’t help starting to check the weather forecast one if not two weeks in advance. Of course, it is a pointless exercise, since no website can tell you whether it is going to rain in two weeks. What many sites do, as I have realized, is to change the forecast every day: the day they forecast as sunny today will be reported as rainy tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow the forecast will improve again. This makes sense, in a way: at least 50% of the users who check the weather far in advance will think they have received a correct forecast.
Today the weather itself has decided to take the same approach: in the area where I am, it alternated between sun and rain at least five times, and at the end I was quite fed up hiding the camera in the backpack and pulling on the jacket just to perform the opposite operation an hour later. During one of the longer and stronger rains I ended up in the Bergeralm and, despite a rather early hour for a lunch, decided not to waste time and try a Brettljause.
It looks like East Tyrol and South Tyrol have a lot of common when it comes to Brettljausen. This one looked very much like a South Tyrolea Marende, consisting of nothing but cheese, Speck and a sausage, except that the Kaminwurz was replaced by a standard Austrian Hauswurst. The problem was that none of the three ingredients tasted as strong as across the border. The cheese had some taste but was definitely no Bergkäse, the Speck was not dry or salty enough, and the Hauswurst was, well, a plain old Hauswurst.
I cannot say that the Brettljause was bad – it was totally edible and well-presented and the Bergeralm itself has a location to die for. Besides, when it comes to alternatives, almost any Brettljause beats getting soaked in the rain.
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