Blogs from Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Europe - page 10

I´ve been hiking again. That´s probably not shocking news. On Wednesday I took a bus from Trento up to a small Banff they call Madonna di Campiglio, 1500m above sea level in the Italian Dolomites. The town´s near the top of a broad pass, and mountains rise up on both sides, especially the east. Here is the Brenta Group of the Italian Dolomites, with massive towers and huge cliff faces that soar up close to a kilometre in places. I managed to find a mountain hut in the valley where I could leave some of my heavy gear again, and ended up heading out for a couple days with a lighter pack. It´s nice having mountain huts everywhere that you can stay in, even if it does feel a little over-developed. It was a shorter hike ... read more

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, Innsbruck hosted two Winter Olympics and is ideal for skiing in winter and mountaineering in summer. At any point in the city, from the train station to our campsite, we were greeted with spectacular views of the mountains surrounding the city. You have to love the different cultures in Europe. I have already mentioned the obvious, Italian's and the Spanish are ... read more

Hello again - this time from Innsbruck, Austria. I am writing while trying to cook some dinner (actually Daniel is cooking) - it’s really windy and it keeps blowing our cooker out so we have had to move to a more sheltered spot outdoors as they don’t have kitchens in camping grounds in Europe. So today we went and had a look at some more scaffolding with a significant tourist attraction annoyingly in the way. It seems that everything that we want to view and photograph is covered in scaffolding - the castle at Heidelberg, the bridge at Heidelberg, the church at Heidelberg, the Dom at Koln, and now the Neuschwanstein castle in Fussen. Maybe they knew we were coming so decided to renovate everything just for us - pity they didn’t finish it in time! ... read more

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So nothing really important o let y'all know of today. I am just sitting in my room actually doing homework, bleh. I hate how this school stuff gets in the way off traveling. I just finished some work For Business communication's and am now studying for my midterm. I wish classes didn't exist in Europe. Oh well look at my pictures from Amsterdam they are great. I cant wait until this coming weekend. If Laki and I ever get over to the train station we are going from here to Brussels and borduex, then to Paris and on to Barcelona, and after that to Milan and back to Innsbruck. SO much fun. I hope it all works out. I also wish the weather would change. It is just cold and wet all the time. I might ... read more