I had the best intentions of finishing up movie week with "Aviator" but I just couldn't see myself sitting for 3 hours in a theater today. I looked about the post-holiday disaster that is my home and decided to clean up and find the floor again. 6 hours later, I've done 2 loads of laundry, gone through all the closets and hauled out 3 bags of trash, brought the Christmas storage boxes in from the garage (I have yet to fill them) and managed to clean the kitchen. The end result? The house looks exactly the same as it did this morning! Oh well, there's always next weekend to try again!
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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