M & J's ADVENTURE CALLED "LIFE": Austria Day 1

Upon arriving in Innsbruck we figured out which bus to catch and headed to Patsch.

Oh how I loved Patsch. It was smaller than you could possibly imagine, but just beautiful and quite. Once we arrived we headed into the one and only hotel and lucked out in being able to check in early. We were also informed that the restaurant would stop serving food at 2pm, so if we were hungry we needed to eat soon. I was a little hungry from a light breakfast so I decided to give it a try.

After dropping off our bags in the room and exploring our room … with an amazing view from our balcony... we headed down to get some grub. We quickly realized that everything on the menu was written in German. HA! Our waitress … who was also the person that checked us in … luckily spoke pretty good English and tried to explain the menu a little. I decided what the hell I’d be adventurous and try the cheese dumpling soup, which turned out to be pretty good … I was proud of myself. When I finished up my soup we decided to check out the village. We walked down the narrow roads and ended up finding a trail and ended up back on a road towards our hotel. That exploring pretty much took up most of our afternoon (not because the village was so big, but because we took our time and took lots of pictures).

When we got back we pulled out the computer and checked for local restaurants in nearby towns (since we saw none while walking through the area and our hotel’s menu wasn’t that extensive and was in German). In that search we found that the only real food was in the next village down … about 2.3 miles back. We figured, well we walked 1.3 miles everyday in Edinburgh to the theater… we can handle that. We ended up at a Pizzeria … I know we were in Austria … but it basically came down to the fact that they had a menu in English. BUT, even though it was a Pizzeria I ended up eating Wiener schnitzel. I didn’t know exactly what it was but it ended being fried pork … anything fried typically ends up being pretty good. We also got a hot apple strudel for dessert … unfortunately it wasn’t so tasty. After that big meal we ended up taking the bus back to the hotel …who wants to walk 2 miles after stuffing themselves?