The hills are alive...

Hellloooooooo from Austria!!!

Ok let me think back to where we have been over the past week.....

Last weekend we left Valencia (Spain) for Barcelona. Had a great time there, I really love that city. We had a look at the sagrida familia (my most favourite piece of architecture in the world), Gaudi´s masterpiece. We also had a look at the Gaudi museum which had lots of stuff on all of the buildings he designed over barcelona. We had yummy tapas, one of the best things about spain. Checked out some great flamenco dancing and chilled out on the beach as it would be the last one we would see for a while....

Beginning of this week we left Spain behind for Switzerland. First we checked out Bern, the capital, which was really nice. We had a look and climbed up to the top of Switzerland´s tallest church for great views of this lovely city. Snow capped mountains as far as the eye could see....amazing. We also had a look at the bear pits there and had a walk along the river before hopping on a train to Zurich. We weren´t too fussed on Zurich, which seemed like just another big city. Although it does have a lovely huge lake you can chill out by....we found the swiss franc to hefty for our budget and left the land of Swiss cheese and chocolate for greener pastures.

We arrived into Innsbruck, Austria a couple of days ago. Although our hostel has resident rats and the doors don´t lock, we are having an amazing time here. Innsbruck has a lovely old town and every where you look amazing mountains take up the sky. Yesterday went for a hike up to 2200 m (no we didn´t hike the WHOLE way, just most of it). It was so lovely to get out in nature and leave the city behind. And what a view!!! After meeting some lovely people at our hostel we went out for a few drinks last night and yes I drank german/austrian beer and yes, I liked it very much =). This afternoon I went white water rafting which was something Ive ALWAYS wanted to do so im quite chuffed. It was beautiful floating downstream through a picture perfect valley...and then you had to paddle hard and cross fingers no one fell out over the rapids. Luckily no one did cos the water was freezing!!

We´re of to Salzburg tomorrow to see if the hills are really alive with the sound of music. Stay tuned for the verdict.....