To Europe and Back

Getting to Salzburg

We realized shortly after Dan dropped us off at the airport that neither of us had brought a watch -- of course, I had OTC drugs for every imaginable ailment, cups, a picnic blanket, but no watch? We have since become huge fans of churches and train stations with an abundance of clocks :-) After a fairly sleepless flight (they showed Field of Dreams and Fever Pitch), we made our way to Zurich to catch the train to Salzburg. We'll be back in Salzburg again for a night en route home, but we had about an hour free, so we went to the Jelmoli department store to have lunch (apparently lunching in department stores is a typically Swiss thing to do) and stock up on supplies for our ride to Salzburg.

The train ride allowed us to passively enjoy amazing alpine scenery -- we certainly don't have mountains like that in New York (or even Vermont). The ride was longer than we thought it would be -- nearly 6 hours -- but we arrived in Salzburg and were at the YOHO Youth Hostel in no time. We were in a room with 6 other girls who were all travelling together in pairs -- the girls from California and North London were very friendly and it was fun to hang out with them at the hostel bar (2.50€ weisse beers!) after a long day of sightseeing. We were beat after being in transit for nearly 24 hours, so we had a light dinner of goulash soup and apple strudel in the hostel bar and were sleeping soundly by 10 p.m.

posted by Heather @ 3:31 PM