So we started off fairly early and as the trip to Archensee was only short we would have a chance to look about Innsbruck and do a bit of stocking up, hair conditioner was high on the must have list. We took the A road route to Innsbruck the scenery once again was spectacular as were the winding road, we actually have so Video footage. It will be posted once we get back to Qatar and I have given it the once over with a video editor. So all was going swimmingly until we got to just outside the city, I noticed a signpost for a Paintball centre call heart-Attack, this tickled both Bee an I greatly so we went to grab the camera, this is when I noticed an oil slick from the cooking oil bottle I have used to cook egg & Bacon for breakfast… Mmmmm Egg and bacon!! So an on-route spill clean-up was attempted as we crawled into Innsbruck, luckily the traffic jam helped us out. Once in the city limit’s the next issue was finding a parking space, for some reason the clever Austrians seem to like the parking lots to be covered this is no good when the height limit is 2.2M and the Van is 2.5M. A long and interesting period of discussion about the relative merits of parking and my skills at getting the Van parked ensued for 30Mins then we found a place. We managed to park near a Spar shop, so we darted in and got to it… Disaster no conditioner!! We brought the rest of the unimportant goods, wine, lemonade, food, oil slick cleaning products etc etc. The a quick wander around the city. Coffee was next, and I somewhat naively ask when the zentrum was in this bar/Café I got bombarded with Austrian Germanic replies, I did my best to sort the directions and headed out, in less than 10mins we had the all important conditioner and a couple of other similar products and headed back to the van. Less than and hour later we were pulling into a lovely campsite on the shores of lake archsee the owner was a top chap, the vista around the site was truly wonderful, we swam in the lake, well Bee swam, I got in proclaimed that the water was actually ice that was about to freeze dunked my head under and headed for the Beirgarten, several beers and sausage and chips later we wandered off the van, where I was soundly beaten at cards.
So its off toward Munich tomorrow leaving the alps behind, a pity as the view is always amazing but we are off to another lake, about 90 minutes driving so not to bad.
Some pictures of course and I hope to geotag them as I get the chance.
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