It’s a beautiful day, blue skies, sunshine and cool temperatures. We must make the most of it! We have a car reserved through Sixt at the Innsbruck Airport so need to make our way there on the F bus that stops every 25 min. in front of the hotel. Getting a bus ticket seems like an easy task. The girl at reception said you can buy them on the bus, but alas she is wrong. We spend 30 min trying to figure out how to buy them, while 2 F buses go by. The machine is not in English and we don’t know how much the ride should cost. An elderly woman on the street looks as stumped as us. I finally find and download the bus app and am able to purchase a ticket which has to be used on my device. Knowing the dollar amount, Ray then sees he can buy one from the machine for 3,20 euros. We are so proud to have figured it out! These are little challenges that I find fun in being in a foreign country. We pick up a Peugeot and are off on our day’s adventure. With no plan in mind we read about towns that are about an hour max drive and settle on Oext, west of Innsbruck. Tall cliffs with billowing clouds and green valleys line the highway. It appears that villages, most with ski runs and chalets sit high above in this long narrow valley. It is a beautiful scene.
Oext has a cable car that runs steeply up to 7,000 ft. At the top are hiking trails and we spent several hours exploring. The views of the villages below are incredible.
As we descend, a guy is preparing to hang glide off the mountain.
The sun sets with a golden palette in front of our hotel.
We enjoy wienerschnitzel and listen to a trio playing jazz tunes in the square, thus ending a perfect day.