Saturday, July 11, 2015

Day 42: Invading Austria

<photos and more details to come>

Today, we had a leisurely morning at the Marriott, mostly characterized by swimming in the indoor pool and relaxing in the jacuzzi. It was raining outside so we were in no hurry to go sightseeing or to drive anywhere. In the afternoon, the rain stopped, so we drove to the old city center and visited the Marienplatz which is the home of St Peter's Church (which was closed for cleaning), the old city hall, the new city hall, and nearby are Holy Spirit Church (which had a weird multimedia art installation) and the Frauenkirche (huge and fantastic!).

We lunched at a fantastic Italian restaurant a door or three down from the back side of the old city hall. The food was amazing.

Then, we drove south to Austria, into the Alps, to Zell am See, and found our holiday apartment, which is amazing.

We wandered around the village streets, which were full of open air restaurants and street performers (musicians, jugglers on unicycles, etc.) and temporary beer halls in tents. We had dinner in the street at a little Italian place and it was lovely. Almost every one had pasta of some sort. Mmmmm.

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