Once again I made the late afternoon dash to the Comic-Con after work. Today's fun panel was about the science fiction museum in Seattle and that was followed by the big media panel on the LOTR extended DVD with 50 additional minutes of footage. Some scenes were shown for us and it's exactly what the fans have been waiting for! In addition, we had the actors who played Pippen and Faramir show up and they were quite entertaining. Saturday is going to be a full day and if I manage to get some rest I might even be able to write about the events.
Innsbruck - here despite it never being on my to-see list
First the backstory. In about a week I'll be boarding a cruise ship (this year's Cruise Trek) in Romania. When I booked the flight many months ago, I had a brilliant idea to go in a week early to Vienna and use it as a base to spend a few nights each in Albania and Bosnia. Fast forward to 6 weeks ago and the Covid restrictions, flight schedules, and hotel prices made me give up. Changing the flight to Vienna would result in penalties and possibly fare increases so I made the best of it and thought, where can I go in Austria where I've never been? Innsbruck, hmm. Can I get a free flight from Vienna? Yes! Can I get a free hotel room? Yes. Check! The city is picture perfect though. Nestled in a valley between two mountain ranges, it's green, colorful, and everything you could want a place to be when the purpose is total work decompression. No major sightseeing, no expectations. You, a city and a view. It's walkable and small. You've got to look up, left and right, ...
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