View from the mountains

Innsbruck

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August 19th 2008
It would probably take most of you a while to find Innsbruck on the map. Hell you lot probably couldn't find Austria!! I decided insults are a good method to test if any one bothers to read the blog! Of course it could back fire on me. We hadn't planned anything past Rome, so we looked at the map in the Lonely Planet guide, read the reviews and decided on Innsbruck. The capital of Tyrol, Innsbr ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more