Aging Europe

I think I was off my blog around that time and forgot to record the events of the August bank holiday. We had planned to spend the weekend hiking, with Innsbruck as the base camp. My job had started just a couple of weeks ago and we were still getting used to me spending such a lot of time away from home. Well, as I and a lot of other intelligent folks have said before - absence makes the heart go fonder - so well....there was a lot of romance in the air.

We reached on Saturday afternoon, checked out the town, got our tickets for the cable car and by the time we got back to the hotel, it must have been around 6-30 in the evening. And that is when we realised that some of the essential elements for a romantic evening were missing. Not a problem, right? - after all, you just have to run down to a chemist/ pharmacie. And thats where you are wrong. Saturday evening, 'late' evening, not a single pharmacy open in the whole town! Most embarrasing but we still went around asking in a couple of shops, just in case they have some emergency stock for tourists. From the reactions we got, you would think that we had asked for, at least, marijuana if not harder stuff. People drew back beind their counters with utter disbelief on their faces as if to say - 'How dare you even ask me for such a thing'. If this was not enough, nothing opens on Sunday - NOTHING! Is it the age or lack of passion - still dont know what to read from the experience.

Anyway, here are some pictures - from the trek, from the cable car - which, by the way, was an amazing experience - me never having sat in an open cable car in the mountains before and finally from the Swarovski museum. I thought that would be a tick-off from a list but it turned out to be really worthwhile.