Wednesday morning in Innsbruck we had the good fortune to go the the “Top of Innsbruck“. I’ve lived my entire life within sight of the Rocky Mountains and climbed many of them so today was a real treat. You take three separate cable cars to get to the last bit of a walk to the summit. Mountains show up in every direction from the top with the City of Innsbruck down below.
We then drove to Linz to meet up with Bob Berwyn (Inside Climate News) and his wife Uta. From Wikipedia: “Linz (Pronunciation: /lints/ LEE-NTS, Austrian German: [ˈlints]; Czech: Linec [ˈlɪnɛt͡s]) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, 30 km (19 mi) south of the border with the Czech Republic. As of 1 January 2024, the city has a population of 212,538. It is the seventh-largest of all cities on the river Danube…Johannes Kepler spent several years of his life in the city teaching mathematics. On 15 May 1618 he discovered Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The local public university Johannes Kepler University Linz is named for him…Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn (an Austrian town near the German border) and moved to Linz during his childhood. The notorious Holocaust bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann also spent his youth in Linz. Until the end of his life, Hitler considered Linz to be his hometown. On the agenda this morning is quest for a Linzertorte and photos of the Danube River.
