Showing posts with label Austria - Innsbruck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austria - Innsbruck. Show all posts

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Day eight in Austria! We visit the Swarovski Kristallwelten...

Today, we are going to Swarovski Kristallwelten in Innsbruck! Now, we will just be here waiting for the shuttle bus to pick us up.


This is the entrance! I love his face!


When we came back from Swarovski, we took a rest, and walked to the Altstadt again since it is also close to the hostel. "Landestheater" is right across the Hofburg, Innsbruck.

Hofburg!

It is also showing the Hofburg.

Do you know something about Bergisel - I think you know, more or less. So now, I am standing in front of the stadium. It is originally designed by Zaha Hadid, and built by the Austrian Ski Association. Opened on 14th September 2002, with the high point at around 250 meters above Innsbruck. The visitor capacity would be around 28,000.

Congress Innsbruck
Alps!!!
This is what they call Heiße Liebe - With strawberry jam, vanilla ice cream, and two chocolate sticks. Wow, I really love that!

Back in Vienna and on the way to Innsbruck

This morning, we are going back to Vienna! Angel missed the train at 7:51 a.m, thus we are not on the second train, which would head towards the beautiful city at 9:00 a.m.
Guess where we are - Prater! How exciting it is to see the Reisenrad!
Today, we are going to Innsbruck. The train will take about 5 hours to ride on. We should be patient...
On our way, the train's final destination is Bregenz, Vorarlberg, and it drove past by The Hauptbahnhof Salzburg, and also the one in Innsbruck. We are getting off. Salzburg is such a wonderful province un Austria! Though we will not manage to go there this time, it is definitely worth going because, you know, there is a world classic film, "Sound of Music", and that is where the movie was shot.

The seventh day of ours journey!
Now we are in Innsbruck, arrived safely.
Some random views on our way to th hostel at Rennweg, Innsbruck.
We are walking around in the Old Town (Altstadt). The house Ottoburg was firstly built as an Innsbruck Castle. Then in 1498, The Emperor Maximilian I got this house from his father. Since then, he and his two kids lived in this building for a while. Then in 1588, Georg Reitter, who was a salesman in Venice bought this house. Nowadays, Ottoburg is used as a restaurant
This Bauern Omelett is awesome!!!