Moving on, Italy to Austria

The Italian leg of our vacation has been wonderful. We have really enjoyed the trains and buses that we used to get around, we feel like we've seen so much.
The train system in northern Italy has a couple major hubs, like Milan and Verona. Verona connects Venice to the east to Rome to the south, Milan to the west and Innsbruck to the north. We traveled from Venice to Verona, then back halfway to Vicenza, back to Verona to connect north to Bolzano. From Bolzano we took 2 buses to Alta Badia, then bused back to Bolzano. From there we headed north to through the brenner pass to Innsbruck Austria.
Innsbruck is a major east west hub in Austria connecting Munich to the west and Vienna to the east. The 4 hour train from Innsbruck to Vienna was our longest yet . I had visions of traveling across the alps and Austria, snow covered peaks etc. But it turned out to look much more like Vermont.
So having arrived in Vienna, the first thing we'll do tomorrow is buy our 7 day transportation pass for the metro and get our train tickets for Budapest.
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