So we got to Salzburg today, and while the city itself is awesome and super fun to wander around in, the damn hotel doesn´t have free WiFi in the rooms. I got spoiled by these past few, but now it looks like we´re close enough to Germany for the dang pay-for-internet thing to kick in. Therefore, I´m forced to write this from a little kiosk in the main lobby, and can´t upload any pictures until tomorrow at the earliest, when we get back to the other stingy internet hotel in Munich.
Most notable thing from today? I learned that Europeans aren´t as immune to traffic as they´d like us all to believe. After making a detour to a small German town called Gmunden (that´s not a typo, that´s how it´s spelled, pronounced "gu-moon-den") where we stopped to take a ton of pictures of a beautiful, absurdly picturesque lake in the Austrian Alps, we attempted to squeeze our far-too-large-for-small-German-towns tour bus out of the city, only to find ourselves stuck in a single lane of PARKED traffic. Like, not even slightly moving, people-getting-out-of-their-cars-to-see-what´s-going-on traffic. Apparently, there was some major accident in the tunnel that was the main way out, and no one was getting through for a while. So our bus driver, Claudio, the Italian Stallion, decided to take an alternate route out; unfortunately, we weren´t the first to think of this. We soon found ourselves in another line of dead-stopped traffic, this time on a street so narrow that even the small sedans in front of us couldn´t turn around to escape, leaving no hope for our giant tour bus to backtrack.
Eventually, we made our way through, discovering that the source of the traffic was little more than too manz people trying to drive on one single-lane road. Honestly, though, it wasn´t that bad. If I could post pictures, I could show you that we were stuck on a road in one of the most gorgeous pieces of forest/lake scenery you´ll ever see, and I was able to comfortable nap for the rest of the ride to Salzburg. All in all, not too bad, but I still felt a slight sense of smug satisfaction knowing that it isn´t just us Southern Californians who have to deal with gnarly traffic.
That´s about it for today, hopefully I´ll be able to get some pictures up tomorrow night, especially since myself, Becky, and my Dad and Grandpa are all heading up to the infamous Eagle´s Nest tomorrow, hiiiiigh up in the Austrian Alps. Might need some of those famous German schnapps to get me past inevitable vertigo, but it´ll be worth it! (Look up the Eagle´s Nest if you don´t know what it is, it´s good trivia knowledge if anything.)
Auf wedersehen, ya´ll.
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