After a very short train journey from Innsbruck, we arrived in Salzburg on the afternoon of the 15th. Day one was taken up with a short walking tour of the city to familiarise ourselves. On day two we did a more comprehensive exploration of the city which included visiting the salzburg fortress on top of the hill, which was first built in 1077 and appears in the background of a few scenes in the Sound of Music, walking through the Mirabella gardens where the Do-R...

Finding our accommodation in our 'mountainside town' proved very difficult thanks to some very ambiguous directions (or as she called them, "constructions") from our Russian-Austrian host Evgenija in Hall in Tirol, a medieval town about 15km east of Innsbruck. We checked into our room, where pink satin covers and girls clothes seemed to indicate we had kicked out our host's daughter from her regular bedroom, awkward. That evening we walked back into town and expl...

We arrived in Innsbruck on the 11th via an amazingly scenic train ride from Zurich through Lichtenstein and the mountains that surround the city of Innsbruck. We had no idea that the austrian landscape was as naturally beautiful as that of Switzerland with all it's mountainside towns and crystal clear lakes, but as we sped through tunnels of mountain rock and shot out into scenic villages, we were amazed! We spent just 2 nights in the city of Innsbruck, as we wa...