An evening walk around town, and the next morning to Tirol
for our scheduled ski lessons. Which turned out to be super fun for the boys,
and they actually learnt to ski. Both the adults managed a load of falls and
gave up quite easily, what with the realization that skiing was like doing yoga
on a floor smeared with oil. The Ski boots are super heavy (3 kgs on each foot)
and skis and sticks and the stiff walking and in and out of cable cars, this
was hard. But we had fun, and actually were happy to know that given so much
heavy duty walk and weight, the cold didn’t even affect us.
With Tirol & Skiing behind us, we drove out the next
morning to Leichenstein, which is a 25km long principality is a German
speaking country. Beautiful, quaint with alpine landscapes and medieval
castles, we walked all over its capital Vaduz. We then drove to Appenzel
Village through the narrow winding roads up the hill to take in the
gorgeous view. After stopping for some
hot chocolate and muffins we drove back to Innsbruck.
Our next day began with a drive to Salzburg, where
the evening was spent walking through the ‘Sound of Music’ famed Mirabel
Palace, the Abbey, the Cemetery, and the Fountain. Since we had nothing much
planned for Salzburg, we decided to drive to Munich the next day. Regretted
not spending more time here – we saw the Marienplatz, Frauenkirche and the BMW
Museum, but missed the English Gardens.
Our next morning was spent with the Von Tropp family
locations on the second part of our Sound of Music tour in Salzburg. With a
lovely Mexican meal near the Mozart home, we wound up for the day. We drove to
Vienna the next morning and drove around the city, caught some views and a lot
of traffic and renovations. But our highlight was the much-needed Fondue fix,
now we were truly ready to get back to Dubai.
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