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It’s such a shame I can’t download my pictures and put a couple on here while we’re away. We’ve spent a couple of days this week walking in the mountains, which has left us both practically crippled with aching legs and sore feet, but the views have been fantastic.

Today we headed to the north and rode the cable car up to 8,000 feet, then walked along the narrow ridges that let ou look down on Innsbruck from way above even the planes that use the local airport (stupid American woman at this morning assumed all of the planes coming over were for Zurich because nowhere like Innsbruck could possibly have an airport. They’re almost knocking the tops off the buildings as they pass over here, so I don’t know how low she thinks they fly from here on to Switzerland).

The trees up in the mountains are amazing. They are as tall as a high office building, and the most fantastic green at the top. Around the bottoms of their trunks are great forests of Christmas trees, woven through with pure streams that we have been drinking out of. They taste so fresh and clean, and just like the sweet water you get in bottles of mineral water, which perhaps explains why so many people just dip their empty bottles into streams of under trickles coming out of rock faces for a free refill.

Tonight is out last in Innsbruck, though. Tomorrow we move on to Frankfurt by way of Munich, where we change trains. I haven’t checked the timetable, but hopefully we have an hour or so there and there will be a barber at the station. I am in desperate need of a haircut.

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