The Austria Plan

Monday April 2 and 2 weeks and 8 mroe days of work till I'm out of this Office Prison! Dan Lerer starring in, Office Break!

I went out Sunday to Borders and picked up a wicked Lonley Planet guide to trekking in the Alps. There I came along the Stubai trail, about a 9 day hut-to-hut trek in the Austrian Alps near Innsbuck. I'm quite keen on doing this and I've got some maps of the area in the guide and all. I found a site but its in Austrian http://www.stubaier-hoehenweg.at/de/index.php which vaguely explains the trail. Other than the guide, it isnt easy to find info on the web for this place so perhaps it won't be super tourist inflated. It will give me a chance to work off that Italian pizza and pasta weight I'll no doubt put on from Italy. So part from Innsbruck and the trail, I'll also explore Vienna, Graz, Salzburg and look at taking a cruise on the Danube, below.

Visit Melk and its monastery, and return through Wachau (a white wine making region in a narrow bend on the Danube) to Düernstein (where Richard the Lionhearted languished in a dungeon after his return from the Crusades) and onto Krems to visit its Old Town. If possible, take the boat to return to Vienna.

Das eest Goot.

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