A taste of Austria

Innsbruck, the old provincial capital of Tirol, lies in the wide Inn valley at the intersection of two important traffic routes, between Germany and Italy and between Vienna and Switzerland. From all over the city there are vistas of the ring of mountains which rear up above the gentler terraces of lower ground on which it lies. More here

The view of the alps in the near distance is beautiful to me but for some, it is claustrophobic and unbearable and inpossible to stay in this city for a length of tiime.