Innsbruck
Capital of Tyrol on the river Inn, Austria. See the Travel note Innsbruck and Austria (Literary).
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither Here Nor There | Bill Bryson | setting | An unchanged station buffet and a golden evening walk give Bryson his first real sense of being in Europe. |
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Neither Here Nor There — Bill Bryson (1991)
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I walked through the station at Innsbruck with an almost eerie sense of familiarity
- Role: setting
- In the book: Opening of chapter 19. Bryson hasn’t been back for eighteen years, but the station seems unchanged and the buffet still serves the goulash with dumplings he ate four times in three days as a student. He takes a room at the Goldene Krone and walks the town in slanting afternoon sun, calling it “an ideal little city”, then returns along Marie-Theresienstrasse.
- Why it matters: Here he feels, “certainly for the first time on this trip”, a sense of wonder at his surroundings: “I was in Europe now.” It is the emotional turn of the Austrian chapter, before the disappointments of Salzburg and Vienna.