Blogs from Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Europe - page 16

Geo: 47.4898, 11.7043Magically, my pedometer is functioning again. A little late, though. At breakfast ... they had hazelnut yogurt!!!! Whatever genius that thought of that should get a Nobel prize. I tried to learn some German on the train. "Gutentag" is probably the only thing I can say almost perfectly in another language. "Gutentag" used to be 1/6 of my German vocabulary ... I am proud to say that it is now 1/10! Bolzano was good prep for Austria and Germany because it is bilingual and had most signs in both German and Italian. Got to Innsbruck ... rainy and cold. Had to wear pants again ... nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!Pricing is odd here .. some things are quite cheap and some are quite pricey. Walked through the Alstadt (old town centre) - very cool. Almost like a time ... read more

Before we left Munich for good and headed off in the direction of Vienna and Prague we wanted to get a trip into Innsbruck and the famous Neuschwanstein Castle, which was effectively in the other direction (well due south from Munich as opposed to East) so we decided to take a day trip. As you might recall from our recent blog, Vicki (aka The Navman Saleswoman) had been trying to persuade us to buy our very own male or female voice from the box that would effortlessly guide us along the remainder of our trip without any need for poor old Rach to have her head in the map whilst I am enjoying the scenery. Would we be convinced that Sat Nav was all she was making it out to be. Well we decided to take ... read more

Omg austria is the best place ever the mountains are so nice i wish everyone back home was here. So we got here after a 2 hour train ride saw these alps and we where like lets climb right to the summit lol well we got really close after about 4 hours of hiking from the hostel straight up the mountain we made it 2000 meters up about another 500 hundred at the most and we would have been at the top, but the air was getting really thin and it was pretty cold we were at cloud level and we figured gettin this high up and reaching snow was good enough considering the last 600 meters was about a 75 degree angle straight up the mountain. So we were really happy, we had a couple ... read more

So today we woke up from our hostel in Munich and decided to take a day trip to Austria. We had to check out of the hostel, but left our stuff in the lockers there and headed for the train station. We had full intentions of finding a lake somewhere in Austria and just lay and relax all day. So we got on our swimsuits, boarded a train at 9:30 am and headed for Kitzbuhel, right between Innsbruck and Salzburg, I heard it was kind of a resort town. After 2 hours we made it to our connecting station and jumped off only to find snow and weather that looked like it might rain. Here we are in our shorts and swimsuits (Munich was more promising than this was) so we bagged the lake idea, and ... read more

We flew from Oslo to Salzburg, then took a train to Innsbruck (via Bavaria). The Alps are so close, feels like you can just touch them. We had difficulty finding our pension and after walking up a very steep hill with our packs and back down again we found that the pension has stopped dealing with our travel agent and had no booking for us. Again we had to spend a night in a dorm before going to our proper accommodation - hmmm, but that's what travelling is about. The Glokenhuis, where we stayed was built in 1550 and was used to make bells that were well renowned. The large exposed pine roofing timbers in our room were the original beams, and yes they still hurt just as much when we bumped our heads on them. ... read more