Blogs from Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Europe - page 6

Kathie and I arrived in Munich after the flight from Brisbane via Singapore. We'll be happy when they get an Airbus 380 for this flight. The Airbus 330 and the Boening 777 are a great improvement on the old Boeing 747 - but even they are now feeling "tight" and they are quite uncomfortable for the long flight(s). We arrived in Mnich at 5.00am..to be greeted by an airport covered in snow and with mountains ofr snowe that have been scooped from the runways and terminal areas. Weather was a little brisk - with temp. at 0C..and snow forecast during the remainder of the day. Met Tim & Lee - former participants on our Austrian White Christmas tour - now living in Munich just 5 minutes drive from the airport. We took them into Munich and ... read more

(The panorama above is from the top of Hafelekar about 8,000 ft above Innsbruck. Also, please excuse the smudge in some of the pictures and video. It seems I got something on my camera lens while at Oktoberfest and I had to clean the lens each time I turned the camera on. I obviously didn't always remember to do this.) We started out for Innsbruck from Schwangau for what turned out to be over 2 hours of mountain driving through the Alps; many hairpin turns and elevation changes. It was a spectacular ride, though. The Alps may not be as high on average as the rockies, but they remind me more or the Teton Range, very jagged and steep---so beautiful. We arrived at our hotel, the Penz, and it was a very modern steel and glass ... read more

I woke up to it raining, well there goes paragliding. I went down for breakfast which was in the pastry shop. they brought me a bowl or cornflakes, 2 buns, jams and spreads, coffee and even a slice of cake, yup cake for breakfast num num. I'm glad I brought my raincoat because it came in handy ALL DAY. I popped in and out of shops which was a bad thing because then I wanted to buy things. I did buy another journal which is really neat, well to me it is. I has a blood splatter on it and the end of the page marker is a bloody knife. After wandering around most the afternoon I caught a bus to the Swarovski crystal museum (mom are you jealous?) It was way better then I thought ... read more

Day one Today was day one of busabout. We travelled from Munich to Innsbruck. Absolutley amazing. Either side of the road were these sheer mountains, all snow capped and massive. It was such a beautiful place. We crossed the border into Austria while snaking around these mountains and arrived into Innsbruck. It is such a beatutiful place completley surround by the same sheer mountains seen when we drove there. It has a massive river (the River Inn), which is incredibly fast flowing and cold. We were staying at the Gasthoff Innsbruck, so a 2 minute walk and we were in the old town. Narrow streets, small shops, lots of sidewalk cafes and tourists. We orientated ourselves around Innsbruck for the rest of the afternoon. We saw the old ski jump that was used in the Olympics ... read more

Useful science blogs... ClimateBlog http://wissenschafts-news.blog.de/ http://www.pandasthumb.org http://www.cosmicvariance.com http://medienpaedagogik.wordpress.com/ http://www.academics.de/blog/ http://itari-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/medienpadagogik-oder-wie-kommen-wir-zu.html... read more