In the tradition of delaying homework as long as possible, I turned to TiVo for entertainment. I was so ready for something different that I even read the TiVo ads. Turns out that I can rent movies from amazon.com and have them downloaded to my TiVo. Wonderful! I haven't rented a movie in years and never got in the habit of pay per view. I had this vision of all new releases just waiting for me this weekend. Instead the new releases are all the movies that I watched on the cruise ship and airplanes over and over for several weeks. Bummer. I still have hope for the amazon unbox but not this weekend.
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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