Photos: Innsbruck, Austria (Day 2)

Mum had this crazy idea to get up extraordinarily early, skip breakfast and tour the city before the bus left.  Nearly missed the bus, but we got to see the river and that cool bridge in daytime. These pictures were all taken when I was half-asleep and feeling ill. Thanks for putting up with my complaining mum, I'm secretly glad we did this.

And I'll have you know, that many teachers throughout grade-school tried to fix my British spelling of 'Mum', but it never stuck. Because that's what I call her. That and "Mummy". I very rarely say 'Mom'. XD Btw: Today is her birthday! Mum if you are reading this, Happy Birthday!

I like the facade on this building. 

It had a different pattern in the morning.

7 o'clock is TOO EARLY.

I have something against making
mannequins look like they're going to
 break out of the store and murder you.

The sun is just hitting the tops of the buildings.

What I thought was really amazing was
 how clean the streets were! If we had
 pedestrian streets like this in Toronto they
 would be covered in trash.

We probably should have turned around at this point, and gone back, but the bridge was in sight! So close, but so far away! So what did we do? We booted it to the bridge of course!

This was the bridge we went to see the previous night, that
 very few of my pictures actually turned out of. They look like
 sewing needles.

Okay, I said "booted it" but that would imply we stopped for nothing. We still managed to take quite a few photos on the fly.

Duck tracks!!!

We ran back to the bus with no time to spare! (Except to stop at a bakery and buy tasty bread. Because I can always make time for bocchen.)

Next: Neuschwanstein Castle!   BACK TO PHOTOESCAPES

I love german signs. XD

Photos: Innsbruck, Austria (Night Shots)

We arrived back at the hotel as the sun was setting. We could see the beautiful sky through the buildings.

The background almost looks painted.

I really liked our room at this hotel.

We went out to explore the surrounding area at night, which was right on the pedestrian streets we had explored earlier that day.

Try saying that 10 times fast.

We waited for Ms. Caprara to sort out her room issues--being stuck in a smoking room is not fun!--and then went on a lovely stroll around the neighbourhood.

We walked all the way down to the river, and then down to the neat bridge Mum had wanted to see, along with the little train station. (More of a public transportation train, used to get people from the city centre, up to the outskirts of town further up the mountain)

This was apparently designed to look like a dolphin or something.

We stopped at the Sacher Torte restaurant, that flies in the original Sacher Torte chocolate cake from Vienna. It was quite good.

More delicious strudel

Up next: Innsbruck, Day 2.

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Photos: Swarovski Crystal World

Here are my pictures from Swarovski's Crystal World! I was a little disappointed because I thought we would get to see how they made the crystals, but instead it was a series of crystal-themed art installations where we were free to take pictures.

I want to apologize in advance for any potential blurriness and graininess in these pictures, it was quite dark in the museum...

Melting clock...? If you thought Salvador Dali, you guessed right!

This room was designed to have many different
 mechanical moving installations, but it wasn't really
 working very well...

Remind you of Tron anyone?

And you always have to exit through the gift shop...

Awww... They're so EXPENSIVE!!!

Next: Innsbruck at Night!