Innsbruck, Austria
Now that’s better, the northern limestone alps on the north, and the Luxor mountains for the alps to the south.
It’s nice to be back in the mountains. And on the list, get a few more photos. But I don’t feel like hiking so much, so good thing there’s lifts.
The hostel I was in was a HI hostel, with a huge list of rules that could fill a phone book and weird operational times including a 7 hour lockout, a 10pm cerfew and a restricted check in. It sounds like they are trying to be a little more lenient, given the stream of bad reviews.
Innsbruck has this neat tourist card thats economical if you plan to see a lot or take a lot of lifts, so that was the first thing I went and bought. The morning was very cloudy, and I was hoping to get some good photos from the top of one of the mountains. So I started with the Sawvorski crystal museum. It had lots of figures, lots of displays with light, and the worlds largest crystal. Sawvorsky is apparently Austrian and from this region, so about 12 years ago they celebrated the 100th year anniversary and built this museum. Returning back to town, the clouds were clearing so it was time for up the mountain, a really nice lift, and some great photo opportunities. I wanted to hike to the other peaks, it turns out they were roped walks so I didn’t get very far.
Went to the alpine zoo, europes highest, and it had all the usual mountain animals. The next day went to the royal appartments, they took about 10 minutes to walk through with security following me the whole time. THey must have been bored. I would try to outwalk them, then turn around and go back, just to toy with them. I guess I was bored too. Then onto the ski jump and watched a few jumpers until it turned too windy. They jump onto these plastic mats that are watered down, and it works almost like snow. What about building a ski hill like that? summer skiing. Well, they do here on a glacier not too far off, but the scots in my room said it was closed so they left the next day. Had a very strange meal there, a small hard sausage, a small loaf of bread with mustard and horse radish all served on a cutting board. How strange it seemed, but also typical of that area, as I had sausages with bread before.
Apparently I look like a criminal to the border police, never seen someone look so throughly at my passport then ask so many questions. Now if they could not speak english, that would have been one heck of a question period.
Well thats all I can remember for now. Off to Liechtenstein.
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