Long drive today. Made even longer by the numerous slowdowns on the highway. Some of them seemed to have no reason. At least two of them did – tolls! While part of the cost of the rental car included what they call a “vignette”, or a pass for the toll roads in Austria (but not in Slovenia – had to buy that separately when we entered Slovenia a couple weeks ago) apparently it did not cover all highway costs. Namely some of the tunnel tolls. Twice we had to fork out some euros to pay for a tunnel. Huh!
But we did eventually make it to Salzburg, our home for the next two nights. Check-in at the hotel was no problem, even if we were a bit early. The nice lady at reception gave us a quick orientation with the tourist map, and then we were on our way into the old part of Salzburg – about a 15 minute walk.
First stop was a late lunch. Then we meandered the streets of the old town a bit, and visited the Salzburg museum for a bit of history on Salzburg – from way back to contemporary. Some more wandering of the streets, visits to souvenir shops, and it was time for dinner. Weather has been a bit iffy so far here, with scattered showers and constant light rain. Not enough to really get wet, but enough to make sightseeing not quite as enjoyable. Well, there’s always tomorrow (forecast for tomorrow – torrential rain. We’ll have to see).
Anyway some pics below from today.
