Innsbruck to Brusilau
Sunday, 12 July 2026
We didn't have too much to do but still managed to make a fairly long day of it. I woke up fairly early so took myself for an easy run by the river before returning for breakfast and packup. .jpg) .jpg)
We got going at about 9.30 and made pretty good time to St Anton am Alberg - where a school friend of Jon's has a guesthouse/hotel and he kindly took us for a tour of both his hotel and the very fancy ski-town. This town actually happens to be one of the two Austrian towns blamed for the superspeading of covid to Europe in 2020. Anyway - it was nice to take a walk though it and meet Jon's friend Christopher and his family. .jpg)
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Leaving St Anton we drove half an hour on a winding road over the montains and then made our first expensive driving mistake - somehow we managed to get ourselves into a 16km tunnel travelling back towards St Anton - in fact worse - it emerged even further past St Anton than we had started 30 minutes ago, AND it cost us 13 Euros for the pleasure. After some tense monents in the car we decided that rather than retrace our steps and take another 40 minutes to get back to where we'd started, we'd pay another 13 euros and go back through the tunnel - emerging where we made our mistake, 30 minutes earlier, 26 euros lighter and considerably more tense!
The rest of the trip went smoothly and we arrived at a guesthouse in Brusilau in the late afternoon, giving us time to relax for a bit in our very expensive, very basic room before going downstairs to enjoy some very average, very very expensive dinner. Ouch Switzerland! .jpg)
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We returned to our hot (no A/C of course) room and watched the world cup before falling asleep.
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