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Left Salzburg at 10am this morning & headed for a week or so in Interlaken, Switzerland, arriving at 7pm.
I had to catch the first train to Munich from Salzburg, then race around & catch another train to Zurich, then change again for a train to Bern, then finally board the train to Interlaken.
It looks pretty awesome, even in the dark!
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| Mens Bathrooms at Salzburg, YoHo Hostel. Clean as too & even has hair dryers! |
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| It looks nice too in real life. Very small ante rooms to get undressed in, but that's normal in most Hostels. |
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| Latest Gizmos in the showers too. |
It was light enough to see up until the final hour...the best part! It looks like we came around a beautiful lake for about 30 mins & then arriving here it looks like there's massive mountains outside my top floor bedroom window, covered in snow.
I'm in a room with a girl who is leaving in the morning.
The bed has a real mattress inner spring & a small (our style) feather pillow! The guy running it is an Aussie from Perth, so I guess he knows what we like anyway!
All the beds so far have been foam mattresses on board bases & that's been Ok.
The pillows are those gigantic European things & the last 2 hostels have had brand new pillows & doonas, so everything crackled, as new stuff does.
No complaints, but now I have a real pillow & a real mattress & this room has an ensuite! Our own shower & loo.
It's a 4 bed dorm, up in the attic tower with a curved staircase leading up & a sloping ceiling inside!
All is good...will talk later.
Hope Peter's birthday went OK yesterday.
Was thinking of you Pete, all day.
First thing I did here was to jump on the WiFi & make sure it worked!
It does, so I'm one happy camper again.
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| Leaving Munich Station. I nearly missed this train as I got off at another "Munich" stn about 10 k from the HB one. I got off at Hfb...Duh...a train stn is a train stn, isn't it? Anyway some guy raced me to another platform & said to go another 7 stops & get off at HB instead. I had 14 mins to connect trains at Munich & with my mistake I lost 12 mins. Just made it. Otherwise, I'd have forfeited my ticket, as there's no refunds etc on the type of ticket I bought! |
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| I thought these German/Swiss trains were a bit of all right & promptly found out I had stowed away in First Class for 50 miles or so! |
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| Snow all gone. Between Zurich & Bern, out the train window... |
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| This looks like grape vines? |
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| The train went over the bridge to the station & came back again to continue, so I was able to get 2 nice slower shots! |
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| A massive lake at Lindau...It is huge, like an inland sea & goes on for miles & miles. |
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| Looks like the snow has all gone, except in the higher regions now. The grass does not burn off under the snow. |
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| Coming into Zurich, Bern or Munich!... |
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| I was so excited I captured this shot. Even racing by & thru' a train window on a cloudy day, it came out OK! |
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| Most of the older buildings throughout Europe appear to be of similar designs. |
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| Super Fast Swiss Train |
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| Ooooops! I thought it said...Office Works!...Oh well. I arrived in Interlaken at around 7pm. 69Euro for the 9 hr train trip thru the Austrian, German & Swiss countryside from Salzburg, Munich, Zurich, Bern & finally Interlaken. At on stage I was in 3 different countries in a 3 min period on the train a girl told me...great trains, nice people everywhere I go. Off to find the Hostel, which is supposed to be 5 mins walk away. |
