Today we bid farewell to Germany. We started with a big breakfast in our hotel in Füssen, Hotel Sonne. I have to say... we really enjoyed our stay there. For about €200 a night we got two rooms (including two bathrooms), beds for five, a reserved underground parking spot, a huge hot breakfast buffet every morning, free use of a washer and dryer, and a location right in the pedestrian heart of Füssen which is very convenient to everything we wanted to see. The hotel was clean, modern and recently redecorated, too. As an example, the parking garage had a whimsical Andy Warhol take on portraits of Ludwig II. The rooms were no less whimsical. Check out the TripAdvisor photos for more.
Besides some impressive scenery on the drive, we drove through a pretty long tunnel, the Lermooser Tunnel, which at 3.2km is not even on the list of long road tunnels but seemed plenty long to us. My kids, who like to sing a single note all the way through a tunnel when we drive one, did not even attempt it.
By noon, we were in Innsbruck. Elodie was a happy girl as we made our way to the Alpenzoo. That girl loves zoos. The Alpenzoo is a fun little zoo clinging to the side of a hill overlooking the city.
For dinner, we walked to this fabulous restaurant called die Wilderin. The kids tried risotto and a wild stag dish. Laura and I had some glasses of Grüner Veltliner a varietal we had not tried before. We drank a 2012 from Weingut Ernst and it was delicious.
After dinner, we walked around downtown a little. I found myself wishing I had more time to explore Innsbruck and Austria. I really have found it friendly and charming. Maybe next trip. :-)
Tomorrow, we drive to Venice!
