So a week on & we are still getting over whatever it was we had! Added to this the rubbish weather, it’s been a slow week. We investigated “chasing the sun” by crossing the Brenner pass to Italy, however Northern Italy was forecast much the same. We stayed in Lofer for 2 nights & managed a walk in to the small town for a quick look around & to say we’d been there. Headed off for a small place in the Austrian Tyrol called Weer, we booked a family run campsite for a couple of nights. The 2 nights stretched into 5. Nice site with an onsite restaurant, hot & clean showers, washing machine,, free bus travel (again) & free entry to some of the local attractions. It gave us the perfect balance of rest with a bit of sightseeing. The highlights being a trip to Innsbruck & a local silver mine. Innsbruck was on/off our list when we visited Garmish however, glad we decided to go. What a little gem it is. Loved the town, surrounded by mountains & a lovely old town with lots of shops, bars & restaurants. It is firmly on our “To Return” list.
The silver mine was in a small town called Schwaz & in the middle ages the mine provided 85% of the worlds silver! We took a ride on a train to the mine, where we spent an hour or so on a guided tour (all in German) – we did have an audio guide downloaded on to our phones but the actual guide had so much more to say & sounded more interesting. A great place to spend a few hours, we then wandered back in to the old town of Schwaz before getting the bus back.
