A Transition Day. After another fantastic week in Pertisau, today was moving day.
But we didn’t move very far. In a desperate attempt to avoid re-engaging with day to day life in Oxford, we decided to add an extra few days to the trip and spend a bit of time exploring Innsbruck. Last Friday we drove through the outskirts of the city - today we got dropped off at a city centre hotel.
Pertisau was in deep blizzard when we left - in contrast Innsbruck was in bright sunshine.
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| Wiesenhof, Pertisau / blizzard |
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| Maximilian, Innsbruck / sunshine |
And as is traditional when visiting a new city our first targets were places where we could look down on the rest of the city.
First stop was the Stadtturn (City Tower) in the middle of the old city - 140-odd steps up a double-spiral staircase.
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| Double Spiral - one up / one down |
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| Innsbruck from the City Tower |
Second stop was the wonderfully futuristic funicular railway which climbs 300 metres from the city centre (via tunnels and a bridge over the River Inn before) climbing up to Hungerburg.
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| Modern Funicular |
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| Innsbruck from Hungerburg |
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| Innsbruck from Hungerburg |
Next step will be to explore more of the old city… and to thoroughly test the coffee and cake shops of Innsbruck.
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| Across the Inn / Funicular Bridge in the distance |
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| The Inn Bridge |
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