Apologies

I need to start this post out with an apology to you, the reader.  My last post was hasty and very short in description of our travels.  After traveling for 5 days and constantly seeing things (more than one a day) and trying to remember and write what I think you would like to read I grew lazy.  Tired and lazy.  Hopefully the rest of the posts will be better since Internet is in the rest of the hotels we will be staying at.  So with my apologies to all let's move on.

June 14 was largely a travel day for us with some stops along the way.  We left Villach in Austria and traveled across the border into Italy to visit the Dolomites, the Italian "Rocky Mountains".  These mountains are grey in color and very high and sharp.  During the trip we rode through beautiful valleys that show a typical Austria//Italian mountain village.  Tyrolean houses with flowers in boxes on each window were abundant.


Crossing back over the border into Austria we arrived at our hotel for the night in Innsbruck in the Tyrolean Alps.  We took a walk in the old town and saw the "Golden Roof".  It is the symbol of Austria and consists of a bay window covered with bass tiles that are polished and gives the illusion of a golden roof.  Kinda weird, but, hey, who am I to judge?  That night after dinner we went to a Tyrolean song and dance show that has been playing continuously over 30 years by one family.  They play seven nights a week.  We heard yodeling, saw men in leiderhosen, listened to the alpenhorn and saw a young girl play all kinds of Austrian instruments.  It was a great show!

Today was another travel day, but much shorter.  We saw more small valleys, very tall mountains still covered with snow and beautiful villages.  We enjoyed a buggy ride through the Roseg Valley which is famous for lush Alpine vegetation and the beautiful faces of the Swiss brown cows with their cow bells ringing through the valley until we came upon a glacier.  Unfortunately, as is happening with most glaciers, it is receding at an alarming rate.

Tonight we are staying the the ritzy-glitzy village of St. Moritz.  La-de-da.  Tomorrow we will be traveling along Lake Como in Italy - think I will see George Clooney?