WWMG Innsbruck, 13 January

This version of Blogger is very definitely not as good as its predecessor, as there is no way, as far as I can tell, to insert links.  At least photos will go in their right place. 

Last night, after I had written this, we went out to the fast food restaurant, Frankies, that the hotel receptionist recommended. It may have been fast food, but it was excellent, and we will certainly eat there again next weekend (it is closed Tuesday to Thursday).  I had a "grillteller", which was huge and I didn't eat all of it

and the Swan Whisperer had a pizza.  And so to bed, but went to sleep too early and was awake for hours in the middle of the night, which meant I had trouble waking up this morning. 

Today was the first day of figure skating at the WWMG, so we got up relatively early (not, it has to be said, quite as early as we had meant) and went down to see what the hotel breakfast was like.  This turned out to be delicious and copious, with a cooked option, including, of all things, baked beans!  

After leaving our room as we hoped the chambermaid would wish to find it, we went down to the rink - which seemed  a great deal nearer than yesterday, now that we knew where it was - and watched the various Pattern dances, from Masters down to Bronze. 

Many of which were mediocre for their standards, but the Arnolds were as brilliant as usual, and our friends and sometime competitors SK and Alicia, did a truly great Fiesta Tango that quite redeemed their egregious European waltz. 

When that was over, we got coffee from the stall - no reduction for using your own mug, but they do make it in it for you.  It was then the turn of the Bronze men to do their artistic, and we'd promised to support Jim, and also a Spanish woman we'd met in the restaurant last night. 

Once they had skated, it was lunch time, so we went to the "Sports Bar" and I had what was called Viennese goulash with bread, and the Swan Whisperer had a burger that came with chips and I think was the better option.  We washed it all down with gluwein, which was lovely. 

After this, I had watched enough skating for one day, so went back to the hotel via the supermarket, where I bought bread, cheese, hardboiled eggs, tomatoes, oranges and yoghurt for our supper, and flopped for  bit.  Then I decided I'd done my 5k steps for the day, so watched a bit of the skating on the live stream, and some YouTube videos, and knitted a bit, and then the Swan Whisperer came in, so we ate, and are trying to decide whether to go down to the bar or not.  I am inclined to say not....