We started our day at 5:30am with a water taxi to the Venice Train Station. We arrived at our hotel in Fussen, Germany at 9:00pm. We took trains from Venice to Verona, Verona to Innsbruck, Innsbruck to Munich, and Munich to Fussen. Thankfully we were nowhere near the earthquake, and didn't even know about it until we were in Austria.
On the train we noticed that the terrain changed rapidly and within an hour of Verona we started to see the snow covered alps. The architecture also changes, with stone and stucco houses with terra cotta roofs giving way to homes that really look like chalets.
Innsbruck is located in a valley and is surrounded by amazing mountains. We spent a portion of our afternoon there, we saw the Golden Roof, and once again played in the Bundesgarden Park with the locals. The Winter Olympics were held here in 1964 and 1976 and you can see the ski jump right from the train station. Innsbruck is also home to Swaroksi Crystal. The older part of town really looked very Disneyesque. We had pretzels and watched the Bavarian band. Even with snow covered mountains all around it was about 70 degrees.
On the train to Fussen, the landscape changed again to flat farmland, with many very neat homes with well manicured yards. We saw quite a few deer in the many open fields. We've now settled in Fussen in perhaps the most unique hotel room we've ever experienced.
Tomorrow we vist Mad King Ludwig's Castle at Neuschwanstein Castle, and head to Zurich for the night.
Gute Nacht
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