Gruss Gott! As was mentioned in the last blog, we noticed the transition from Italy to Austria as soon as we got on our third and last train for the day – clean, fresh and punctual to the second. The journey from the Austrian-Italian border to Innsbruck proved that the Austria of our imaginings (yes, ok, the Austria from The Sound of Music (TSoM)) did in fact match the Austria of real life – clean, green, mountainous and snowy, complete with chalet-type-houses nestled into the hills. Luckily the train wasn't very full as we looked like complete tourists gawping out the window from one side of the train to the other and pointing at various rivers, bridges, mountains, castles perched atop of hills and suchlike. Innsbruck was bigger that we had imagined, but still a lovely,
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