we’re back from our mission to Austria and Italy Watch this space for the pictures. Here are the bullet points: Road trip from Regensburg to Innsbruck, Austria Overnight stay in the historic old quarter there at a great hotel that was quite tricky to find (parking separate from the building itself) Continued drive to a beautiful B&B outside of Verona, Italy — big story about finding this place Big let-down in Verona, Italy Italian grocery shopping trip Long drive back
Gasthof Humler Hof The Joint Fam. Kirchmair Nößlach 483 A – 6156 Gries am Brenner Phone: +43 – (0)5274 / 87 500 Fax: +43 – (0)5274 / 87 500-22 http://www.humlerhof.com/ Cliff I thought it was really nice of them to serve us lunch at an obviously weird hour — we were the only ones making use of the restaurant (must have been smack in the middle of the big break between normal lunch and dinner hours). The Schnitzel with mushroom cream sauce was nice, and though I would have preferred fresh mushrooms to the canned ones, it was still pretty good. And the home-made Spätzle was excellent. We discovered some very nice views of the area on our little stroll after lunch: Sarah We stopped here for lunch on the way home from Italy. It was close to two o’clock and most restaurants in these parts (especially in small towns like this one) close between lunch hours and dinner hours. So we were pretty surprised that this place was open. They had a salad bar set-up, which is really unusual. Unfortunately, many of the offerings were kind of wet – drippy lettuce, asparagus swimming in marinade, etc. Cliff and I had the same thing and as he mentioned above, the homemade Spätzle was really good, Schnitzel and sauce were nice, too bad about the canned mushrooms. I personally think the most impressive thing about this place was the view!