Innsbruck

The weekend before last, we were in Innsbruck for 4 nights. Philip joined Mary there, as she had arrived in Austria 2 days earlier for a work based meeting. We found Innsbruck to be a great place, clean, tidy, full of polite and efficient people. The architecture was interesting, our first glimpse of Alpine style buildings. We loved the Aldtstadt, with its narrow streets and picturesque buildings. Most places of interest were in walking distance from our hotel. The food was good: schnitzels, sauerkraut and dumplings etc , all at much cheaper prices than the UK. The souvenir shops were full of cuckoo clocks (of course), but we just bought a "fridge magnet" version. The weather was cool, with some snow, which started to settle on the last day. The city is in a broad valley, and everywhere you look you can see the snow-covered mountains. Around the city, the trees were showing some spectacular autumn colours.