6 hours of sleep in one shot at last! After being awake yesterday for 22 hours, I finally made it into my bed and slept until 5:00 am this morning. I could have used the last 2 hours that my alarm was set for but once I'm up, that's it. So now I'm downing the first Nescafe in my room before I retrieve the Kuwait Times and head to breakfast. Today is another long one with a good 12 hours of scheduled activities ahead of me. This is all much more manageable now that I don't have the stress of doing school every morning and evening. As usual, the sun is up and it looks to be another typical day in Kuwait.
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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