Monday, June 12 – Salzburg

We began another beautiful day with a tour of the Shoenbrunn Palace and grounds. After that, we drove downtown to tour some other sites, but buses are excluded from most of downtown, so we jumped off some distance away and walked. Trevor, with his prosthesis and sore knee, and me, with a sore foot that has bothered me for the last week, decided that we wouldn’t go that far. We had some lunch, and then I went to an Internet café to check my 250 emails while Trevor nursed a beer at the restaurant. The others all went on to shop or visit the cathedral. Meanwhile, Helmut drove Jim to his cousin’s place. He is leaving us here and making his own way home later. So long Jim. It has been fun having you along.

We got to our hotel in Salzburg - one of the nicest so far - before 6. They have a nice little lounge area where we cracked open the bottle of port that Jim had left for us and toasted our departed friend. We followed that with a bottle of wine, and then went next door for some pizza and beer.