DHL Redelivery Request in Belgium

This year my wife wanted to buy some clothes for our kids as Christmas gifts.  She postponed the purchase until the Christmas sale.  However, the clothes that she wanted to buy had been being sold away even before the start of the Christmas sale.  She inevitably decided to buy them even before the sale.  However, the problem was that we had to go to Austria to ski during the Christmas holidays and the clothes that she purchased online was likely to arrive at the house when we would be absent.

Her worry came true: DHL attempted to deliver the parcel when we were not at home.  She came to have another worry that the parcel would return to the seller and wanted to ask DHL to redeliver the parcel on a certain day that she wanted.  We could not find any information about redelivery on Belgium DHL website.  Thus, we googled several times with such key words as "reschedule" and "redelivery" and discovered a website.  Whereas UK DHL website provided redelivery request on its website, Belgium DHL had a separate website for redelivery request (http://dhlredelivery.be).  We typed in the reference number for our parcel on the website and requested redelivery a few days later.

When we returned to home, we found a notice that DHL left for us that we would need to pick up the parcel at a DHL station.  However, next day the parcel was delivered to us.  We realized that if we did not requested for the redelivery, we had to go to a DHL station to pick up our parcel.

Skiing in Alpbach

This is the third year of visiting Alpbach to ski.  I guess that now I am a little bit familiar with Alpbach and can say something about Alpbach (www.alpbach.at).

Alpbach is a small village of Tyrol, Austria.  From Brussels to Alpbach, it took more than 11 hours, although Google Map says that it takes 8.5 hours.  There were several road construction areas in Southern Germany through which we had to pass and there were heavy traffic jams around the border between Germany and Austria.

It seems that Alpbach ski resort named after the name of village Alpbach.  However, there is no decent ski slope except a nursery / practice slope in Alpbach village.  Two Gondola lanes that take skiers to ski slopes start from Wiederbergerhorn, a bus stop on the road to Alpbach village and from Inneralpbach.  Of course, there are several lifts in the middle of the mountain.

Alpbach ski resort seems to include not only Alpbach village and Inneralpbach but also Reith im Alpachital and Kramsach.  However, main ski slopes can be accessed from Wiederbergenhorn and Inneralpbach.  By car, it takes 20 minutes from Reith im Alpachital and 30 minutes from Kramsach to Inneralpbach.

In Kramsach, there is no decent ski slope.  Although Alpbach ski slopes map says that there are ski slopes in Kramsach, the slopes are barely operative.  In Reith im Alpachital, there is a gondola lane and a good nursery slope.

Last two years, my family stayed in Kramsach.  This time we rent a holiday apartment in Reith im Alpachital.  Kramsach is smaller and less developed than Reith im Alpachital.  Reith im Alpachital looked smaller than Alpbach but cozier and more beautiful than the other nearby villages.  However, it is not easy to get an accommodation in Reith im Alpachital.

Many Austrian people in Alpbach, Inneralpbach, and Reith im Alpachital can speak English. Although most visitors are German skiers, Dutch and English skiers were also noticed.  

I put my kids into a ski school named "Ski school Alpbach-Inneralpbach (http://en.skischule-alpbach.at)," whenever I came to Alpbach ski resort.  The ski school provides several programs according to skiers' skills.  The programs usually begin on Sunday.  Joining on Monday seems to be acceptable.  On Friday, the ski school has its students attend races.  Regardless of their records, they can get certificates and medals.  These certificates and medals are a good gift for kids.