Since we didn't get back from walking around the lake until pretty late last night, we had kind of a slow morning. We reheated last night's pasta and veggies for breakfast, then made up the remaining pasta with oil, cheese, and garlic (everything we had left) to have later for lunch. Times like this make me feel like I am becoming my mother. I
hated it when she expected me to eat leftover cold pasta for lunch when we were traveling. However, this was really good cold leftover pasta, and it was my idea, so it was all good.
We went online to reserve our rental car and discovered that the base rate that Avis was quoting us was about half the price of the real rate once they added on the taxes and fees. Ugh. Why do they think I care what is the money they get and what is extra taxes? Oh, right, they don't. They just wanted me to make plans to use a rental car based on a lower price. We considered the car anyway for a while but eventually decided against.
By this time, it was almost time to catch our train out of Lake Bled. We'd hoped to go up to the castle for views out over the lake, but there really wasn't time. Instead we just went down to the water for a couple minutes before hurrying off to catch our train to Villach, right over the border in Austria, then switched for a train to Salzburg. On the way down to the water, we saw a nice church. The train ride was really scenic too. In our compartment on the way to Salzburg was a German student on his way home from a semester studying it Italy. We enjoyed talking with him and he urged us to visit Regansburg when we go to Germany.
We arrived in Salzburg around 5pm, having emailed and heard back from 2 out of 3 hostels in Salzburg that they were booked for the night, and the third one turned out to be crazy expensive. Instead we went to tourist information where they booked us a cheap room for a small fee. We got there just as it started raining heavily, but after a while it cleared up and we went out. Most things were closed, but we went on a long walk around the old town exploring the things that were still open, including:
Gardens
Window shopping
The Dom (the big cathedral)
St. Peters
Maria's Abbey from the
Sound of Music (it was closed, but this looked kind of familiar)
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