Living in a fairy tale

In christmas time, our dear Seilergasse turn into "Fairytale-Street"



if you pass through the street, you are surrounded by fairy tale creatures, being fastened to the houses:

Fairy tale

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South Tyrol

Since it has been very very cold here in Innsbruck city for the last days, i found a very neat way to flee from here easily:
i chose to take part in a university's excursion (again) to South Tyrol, which is - as the name already tells - south. South of the Alps and so it is mainly untroubled by snow and cold in winter! How convenient!



A view in the lovely city of Meran. Note: while landscapes north of the Alps are already "gifted" with thick white snow covers, you may enjoy a nice late autumn afternoon south of the mountain range.



What a wonderful world! After all a journey from Innsbruck to South Tyrol should only take you about 2 hours. Depending on where you're going.



The most interesting sight has been Castle Tyrol:




... with its most impressive romanic portals:




...and mediaeval frescos:




(At this point i was humming the lines from David Gray's "Nos da cariad":
"Hold on to St. Christopher
The sky is murderous red
Go to sleep my one true love
Our glory lies ahead"...)

All in all Castle Tyrol is place very worth visiting, not only if you're interested in Tyrol's and South Tyrol's history and contemporary history but also because of its rich (culture) historic treasures!

Sportfreunde Stiller in Innsbruck

One of my favourite bands lived up to its name to be one of the most stirring indie live bands - at least in the german speaking area ;)
Sportfreunde Stiller live in Innsbruck:

Poem for lonely winter evenings

Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to blead

Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed



It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose
("The Rose" by Bette Midler)

Allergic to Munich

Munich has always been something like my favourite town:



very close by, easy to be reached, plenty of sightseeing and shopping facilities, nice people.

Last time i have been there, i didn't feel that cosy anymore...

I was strawling along the shopping street when all of a sudden my eyes began to upswell as if a bee had stinged me and my lips and fingers were itching too *Oh my goddess*:



I immediately fled to the next coffeeshop to sit down calmly and see if it would go away or if not, call for a doc. Fortunately it turned out to happen the first alternative *sighing*!

Later on i asked my doctress about that and she said it might very surely have been an allergic reaction to something in the air over there in Munich.
I just hope, that doesn't mean i cannot go to Munich anymore cause that would make me very sad! -_- (I will see a doctor at the allergy department this week for further enlightenment on that subject!)

Need sponsors?

While listening to FM4 radio - an austrian radio channel - i stumbled over the funny song "Sponsoren" by Christian & Lollo.
Even if you may not understand the words, you might as well guess the meaning:
two young ambitious musicians yearning for sponsors... =^+^=

Changing View

Last weekend we had some proper weather here in the Alps, so we decided to run up the mountains. No no, of course not by foot, bike or anything which would cause me to cry. A cablecar would do as well!



Take this one for instance!
The cablecar that runs up the "Nordkette", which is a chain of mountains north of Innsbruck, and soon you will be lifted up more than 2.000 m above sea-level.

Looks like that...





The landscape is like that: cliffy!



And if you keep your eyes not well peeled or you're simply hiking very thoughtlessly you might as well be surprised by thick fog:



PS: But of course we made our way out of the fog - as you can see, we arrived at the hut in time to take the last cable car downhill. Before we even had a little time to pop the corks for my birthday... ;)