Innsbruck and around...

Driving from Bavaria to Innsbruck we passed some fantastic countryside.

Made some new friends - Theresa and Eduardo....................

Eduardo, myself, Christina and Theresa

Christina and me

and had a wonderful dinner which was typical Austrian.

The Starter Platter - compliments of the Chef

The bread selection

Eduardo's main - I think it was beef.

My main course, a typical Tyrolean dish - spinach, cheese and pasta

Christina's main - can't remember what it was

The super dessert platter but the mango icecream was nothing compared to what one get's here.

Finally, river rafted on the Ziller. What an experience!

By the shores of the Bodensee.........

Whilst driving through Bavaria on our way to Austria, we came across a beautiful lake in an extremely peaceful setting. It was the Bodensee also known as Lake Constance. It is a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps and consists of three bodies of water: the Obersee ("upper lake"), the Untersee ("lower lake"), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein.

The lake is situated in Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the Alps. Specifically, its shorelines lie in the German federal-states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, the Austrian federal-state of Vorarlberg, and the Swiss cantons of Thurgau and St. Gallen. The Rhine flows into it from the south following the Austro-Swiss frontier.
(Source: Wikipedia)
 
 

Some facts:

• Lake Constance was first mentioned by the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela about AD 43.
• The freshwater lake sits at 395 m above sea level and is Central Europe's third largest, after Lake Balaton and Lake Geneva.
• It is 63 km long, and at its widest point, nearly 14 km.
• Lake Constance was formed by the Rhine Glacier during the ice age.
• The Lake Constance trout (Salmo trutta) was almost extinct in the 1980s due to pollution, but thanks to protective measures has made a significant return.
• The lake itself is an important drinking water source for southwestern Germany.