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Lech is a colourful ski town, famous for being bitterly chilly even in summer, and as the setting for one of Princess Diana’s holidays. This really is ‘Sound of Music’ land. The mountains, hills, rivers and scenery of each is spectacular and so stereotypically alpine. It was just a pleasure to be here, even if it was unbearably freezing.
Getting lost in Innsbruck – it can be done. We spent our time jumping on and off trams, then ascending in a cable-car for a view over the whole of the city. Austria has a habit of being warm and sunny one moment and cold and cloudy the next. The buildings and streets are harmless, very inviting and a joy to walk around. It’s all very artfully old Europe.
It seemed St. Anton was a very hilly off-season ghost town with nothing going on in it at all. But does that really matter when you have wondrous mountain scenery all around? When you walk out of your hotel, go to the shops, get taken 6,000 feet up beyond the clouds in a mountain Gondola, there it is: that unmistakable taste of still alpine air and the balmy scent of pine trees.
After spending a night in Karlsruhe, we were heading many hundred miles south, along the endless AutoBahns in the general direction of Munich and Austria. By afternoon, we had entered the area known as the Black Forest and soon after we were crossing the border into Austria! By evening, we were at St.Anton, settling into our pleasant chalet style hotel.
