And here comes a new category of posts : the Spotlights ! My goal is to share some very basic knowledge I have gathered about the key destinations of the trip.
Obviously, Ludi Vojago is not supposed to take place only in big cities. I am perfectly open to smaller places as long as people are actually interested in playing and creating board games 🙂
But I have to start searching somewhere, and “WHOLE COUNTRIES” is a bit too large. So, after deciding the key points of my itinerary, I’m currently searching places to be hosted around big cities. I take the cities, find out what’s going on there, then search in the smaller towns around, say, a radius of 50kms or something of sorts.
But as I’m considerating passing by those cities, better do some homework about them, right ? I don’t know most of them, so I only gather minimal knowledge meant to be completed (or totally discarded) by actually going there.
Let’s start with Austria, and the city of Innsbruck !
Innsbruck, actually meaning “The bridge over the Inn River“, is a city close to mountains. By “close”, I actually mean “very very close”.
The city is between München and Verona, two other cities I’m planning to visit. Couchsurfing-wise, 1,974 people currently have a profile marked as living around Innsbruck, which is not bad at all :-).
About games : there’s a café full of board games in the city, the Café Weli. There’s also a video game studio, Still Alive Studios.
Also, the city is quite touristic, and it’s quite easy to see why by looking at some pictures of local buildings.
And finally, some capital information from Wikipedia :
“In 1929, the first official Austrian Chess Championship was held in Innsbruck.”
Way to go !
Ludi Vojago 
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