Innsbruck;part1

Innsbruck seemed to be another one of these towns where people really only go for the walks, bike paths, etc....Greg would have loved to have done one of the walks but as there had been a forecast of snow this last week, including for the day we travelled there, we decided it would be prudent to wait for another day.

We were surprised to see how quickly we saw signs of snow after travelling not that far out of Vienna since we had only received 1 day of snow out of the 4 days predicted. Salzburg looked so lovely snowkissed, that we were tempted to disembark and spend a few hours there.

Schloss Ambras-It was a 2.5km walk from the main train station which we all enjoyed, after the 5 hour train ride, plus it was a lovely sunny day. We weren't able to find a free tourist map so luckily we had already downloaded a map off the internet.

We were very pleased to find the grounds still covered with some snow. This peacock seemed to be every bit as taken by Jordan, as Jordan was taken by the peacock. Lovely lovely grounds. Inside was a collection of suits of armour which was very impressive. Especially once we realized that these weren't reproductions. They were the real armour worn by king so and so when he was killed in that battle, all dents and dings being completely authentic. The schloss also housed the "Chamber of Art and Curiosities" which looked cool from the postcards but that's as close as we could get because that bit was closed until summer. We missed out by 2 days. Sigh. It also had a few modern art exhibits which weren't so bad but we were surprised to see. I wondered why the giftshop gave me a paperbag with "History of Art Museum" stamped on the side.Duh.

Jordy and I tried our hand at making our own "installations" with twigs and snow as our medium. No photo sorry because "someone" banned us from installations and therefore did not want to waste precious camera space on....."that stuff".