AUSTRIA - DAY 2 The day dawned wet and raining so we changed our plans for the Alpine Zoo and instead headed across town to the Glockenmuseum and Glockengieberei Grassmayr. We wandered around this bell foundry and museum and saw the process from ore to bell. It was fascinating to discover how bells are made and that each bell is made up of 50 tones for a note so that if you were to cut the bell into thin slices each slice would make a slightly different sound....

AUSTRIA - DAY 1 We decided that going up the mountain was the first order of business today, so after breakfast we caught the bus to the cable car station. We could just hope that the rain would not dampen our spirits of another morning in the snow. Up we went to the first station of Seegrube, 1905 metres high. There we changed to the second cable car. As we headed up the rain changed to snow and we ascended into the clouds. We arrived at Hafelekar 2256 metres...

TRAVELLING - ZURICH TO INNSBRUCK We got to the train station and boarded our train heading to Innsbruck, Austria, our next port of call. Along the way we got to see some awesome scenery on the four hour trip. Ellexis and Angelique had a chance to do some school work, much to Ellexis' dismay. Angelique happily got down to it and worked through everything with her usual happy self. After a slow start, Ellexis got stuck into it and completed her work. It really ...