More about that Tyrolean Squirrel’s Tail

The wind is whistling at the top of the Hungerbergbahn.  But my teacher is encouraging. ‘It’s bärig,’ she says.  ‘Innsbruck ist bärig’ (‘Innsbruck is terrific’). I repeat; and repeat; and repeat again. I’ve written before about the variety of Austria.  A country dissected by great mountains and steep valleys has developed, over centuries, a patchwork of […]