After a wonderful 2 (almost 3) days in Florence, Italy, it was time to head North for Austria! |
| 6 person sleeper car |
Dad and I left Florence late evening, taking a sleeper car on the train into Innsbruck, Austria. We arrived around 4:30 am and took a cab from the station up the hill to our hotel, the Aldranser Hof. Since it was so early, no one was up at the hotel yet, so Dad and I stashed our bags under a picnic table out front and wandered around the tiny town on top of the hill as the sun came up.
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| sunrise in Innsbruck! |
The desk clerk arrived around 7am, and luckily she let my dad and me check in early, and we got a FREE breakfast! We then took our bags up to our room, took a long-ish nap, woke up and made ourselves presentable, and then caught a bus into downtown.
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| the Old Town area of Innsbruck |
We grabbed lunch at an outdoor terrace restaurant downtown that was full of locals (we might have been the only tourists there) and we tried to stereotypical German cuisine - sausages, beer, and beer pretzels. YUM.
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| WEINERSCHNITZEL |
We wandered around downtown for a few more hours before the rain drove us back to the hotel before dinner. For dinner it was more typical German food - weinerschnitzel! Which, I must say, was surprisingly delicious. It's served with cranberry jam and boiled potatoes, making it a very filling (and perfect for colder-weather) meal. After dinner, it was back to the room to once again pack up our belongings and get ready to hit the road. Next stop: Cologne (Köln), Germany! Auf Weidersehen, and until next time, Innsbruck!
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