Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Innsbruck Day 1

Today was a very long day. I had to check out of my hostel by 10 and my train didn't leave till 11:45. So, I spent almost 2 hours at the train station on my laptop watching movies that I've seen several times before, but, oh well, it still helped the time pass. Once I got on the train it wasn't too interesting unfortunately and because of the sun there was a bad glare on the screen so I could barely watch my movie. I didn't take any pictures because  all you could see were construction sites and once I got to the mountains there was a storm so visibility was limited. Once I got to Innsbruck I looked at the given directions for how to get to my hostel which seemed fairly simple. It told me to take a certain bus and what stop to get off at. This would've been fine if the bus was near the train station. I looked all over for this bus stop but couldn't find it. There was a map that showed where all of the buses drove but it was a terrible map. There was only 1 of them and it didn't have names or a thing saying "you are here" it was terrible! So after pondering this map for way too long trying to figure out where I was, I decided to give this bus station one last look around and still found nothing so my frustration got to me so I gave up and took a taxi. It only costed 8 euros so it wasn't too bad. Once I got to the hostel and I checked in I was pleased to find out that I have english speaking room mates! They're a newlywed couple from New Zealand so it was so nice to have a consistent conversation and not need to worry about how fast I talked or how I said it. We were talking for a little while and then they decided that they were going to go down to the kitchen to make themselves supper and have a few drinks so they invited me to join them which I did. After they'd eaten we had noticed that there were 2 girls from Great Britain sitting at the table behind us. So we got to talking with them and we ended up spending 4 hours maybe a little more just talking about our backgrounds and where we've been and where we're going. It was very interesting and there's way too much to type because the 2 British girls had the travel bug and the newlyweds had been vacationing for months in Europe already. Unfortunately I have 2 nights here and everybody else only have tonight left here but hopefully some more english speaking people take their places tomorrow. That's all for now. Good night.

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