Caught the train up to Innsbruck in the heart of the Tyrol. Another beautiful place, with the city lying in a wide tranquil valley surrounded by incredible mountains.

The old town is chock block full of the usual palaces, those Emperors sure did like to get around. One of the rooms in the palace here is painted with portraits of all 16 of Marie Teresa's children including the ill-fated Marie Antoinette, who came to a sticky end a few years later.

You can get up to the top of the mountains incredibly easily thanks to the funicular and Cable cars which whisk you from the centre of the city, to the sky station some 1500m higher. An amazing view with the whole valley stretching out below as you look down on planes gliding into the airport and para-gliders soaring on the thermals.