Having a great time in Salzburg, it’s a really beautiful city. Went to a well wicked beer hall run by monks last night and drank litre steins of excellent beer. Well ok I only had one. But it was good.
Went to the fortress today, up this crazy 20 degree incline cable car. Fantastic views of the city, once it stopped raining at least. An amazing place that dates back many hundreds of years. Did all the usual tourist museum stuff and and snapped plenty of photos. Saw some very talented buskers and, yes, got a photo of them too.
Can’t post photos from my phone here, so no visual delights for y’all I’m afraid. I’ve taken 120 or so “real” photos with my digicam so one day some of those might make it up here. Maybe when I start to run out of memory card space and need to get them onto CD.
Salzburg does feel quite similar to Melbourne in many respects. Not least of which you can use the public toilets for free! Cafe’s are nice and friendly and it’s all quite easy to navigate. Oh and Mozart was born here so you can buy just about anything you like with his face on it. Bizarre that towns define themselves around one person.
Finally got my hands on a Deutchland map today, so it’s planning time. The MotoGP is about 360km from here. Praha would be less than half that. I’m feeling really lazy and rather comfortable right now so am fighting the apathy which might prevent me going.
Hang on, a better option would be to go after the race. Yeah that could work, though I’d need to do some serious days riding to get over to Amsterdam in a timely fashion. Praha is 170km from the racetrack so it’d be easy to rock up there on Monday morning and maybe stay for a couple of days. It’d be July 19th by then so I’d need to get a wriggle on after.
So what do the kids on the island say? You’ve all made it pretty clear that Ceske is not to be missed. So Prague instead of Berlin? Better czech the weather first…
Some other random thoughts from previous days that I neglected to post:
The cows in the farms along the alpine roads in Swizterland do in fact wear enormous bells around their necks. I’m not sure that isn’t just for the tourists benefit, but it was very cute.
The Porsche museum in Austria is an absolutely ripoff for 2 small rooms of cars at 6 euro. Avoid it!
Riding the Austrian alps were fun the other morning. Finally I had a set of good roads with minimal traffic. I spend a bit of time wondering whether bike touring is “better” in Australia or Europe. Between the highly unpredictable weather and awful traffic I think I have to conclude that Australia is better for that kind of thing. I expect it’s only going to get more difficult from here so it’ll be interesting to see how I feel at the end of the trip.
Austrian Bratwurst is seriously top notch. As is Wiener Schnitzel.
Can’t seem to remember any more just now… always happens ;-) Bye!
Oi. MY Porsche museum in Australia is going to cost !@ Euro (thats 12 Euro in capitals). It might only be ONE room. I’m not wanting to hear any complaining neither.
Good to see your experiencing one of the true treasures over here – the beer! Go to Prague you slacker, then go to Berlin AND Amsterdam. You can really make good time on german roads, so don’t be too fussed, it’s like going to Shepparton and then Echuca!
Dear Jules,
Sounds like you are having a fantastic time and am very very jealous indeed of the adventures you must be having. i do have a couple of “princess pearls of wisdom” for you though…
berlin is a must! one of the best places i went to, and very unexpectedly btw. people are great, architecture is great, art is grat – just watch the food, you dont want those extra kgs to have you sliding around on that bike.
watch out for british boys – they may pretend that they have that mummy’s boy innocence but they are not to be trusted.
stay away from australian pubs, burgers etc. BAD BUSINESS
lastly I have been thinking of the things that will happen to you on your trip, you know those things you will always remebmer, things that really made all the bad days wortwhile – like the present you bring home for jess! i was thinking jewellery because i know that you are very strapped for space and a little ring from paris or necklace from bond street would do the trick…
i am on line every day if you need some advice :)
and no jess did not ask me to write this little message of goodwill.
take care babe and safe travels.
x Leigh