What I did on my holidays: 6 – Moving to Salzburg

Today we transferred from Innsbruck to Salzburg.

There was time for a little photography on Innsbruck station before our train.

Innsbruck

Innsbruck – perhaps the best end-of-platform view I know of…

Leaving Innsbruck, I was able to capture two last views of the Nordketten, including a clear view of the Hungerberg funicular ascending the mountain.

Last view of the Nordketten

Hungerbergbahn

The journey took us along the Inn valley to Wörgl. Since I last travelled this way, the line between Innsbruck and Jenbach has been upgraded to a high-speed route, and much of the journey was in tunnels. This seems to be a feature of recent line upgrades in Austria; perhaps nowadays, people on trains are so engrossed in their devices that they don’t mind missing the scenery. But for me, that’s one of the reasons for visiting Austria, and the tunnel running was a bit of a disappointment. Then the train turned to the north past Kufstein, and then ran through Bavaria, joining the Munich – Salzburg main line at Rosenheim before re-entering Austria.

Arrival at Salzburg resulted in our stepping off the train into even hotter and more humid conditions than we had at Innsbruck. After checking in to our hotel (which fortunately did have air conditioning), we went out on a shopping expedition, and on the way back stopped outside the Volksschule on the Faberstraße to see the plaque memorialising Einstein’s first symposium on his Theory of General Relativity.

Plaque on the Volksschule, commemorating Einstein’s first lecture on his Theory of Special Relativity in 1909 (2007 photo).

In the evening, there was a massive electrical storm – 45 minutes of continual lightning.

Previously: Day 5, Seefeld

Next: Day 7, Salzburg

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