After Budapest I found myself sitting on a wooden bench at an Austria castle looking out onto the Alps with black clouds streaking wildly across. The following day found me on top of those Alps, high in the clouds drinking beer in an Alpine hut. The clouds finally broke and I hiked frantically, taking pictures and finding new angles. Innsbruck was full of pastel colored buildings with snow-capped mountains behind, a hostel full of just as colorful people and a hike into a magical land. Austria started off with the big city of Vienna but ended with the natural beauty of the Alps.