August 30, 2022
Holiday warm-up: a day in Salzburg
I woke the next morning to find myself not quite as close to Salzburg as I'd hoped. (We'd been delayed during the night -- I think because of having to wait for some carriages to join us from the Netherlands leg of the journey, which had also been disrupted by the NS strike. Those carriages don't have bike spaces though, hence my German detour...) This meant I'd miss my planned connection in Wels, but a bit of googling confirmed that I'd be able to pick up a sightly later train, which would get me to Salzburg shortly after 9 a.m.
Why the rush to get to Salzburg? Because -- following a recommendation elsewhere on this site (I think from the 'Tally Galls'?) -- I'd booked myself onto the very wonderful(/ridiculous)-sounding 'Fräulein Maria's Bike Tour', a Sound of Music-themed bike circuit of the city, so needed to present myself outside the Mirabell Palace at 9.30 sharp (in fact, at 9.25, to allow time to swap my touring bike for something more suitable for a city cruise...)
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I'm not usually one for guided tours, but this was really good fun: suitably irreverent, but also packed with interesting information (about the city as well as the movie), as well as being a nice way to stretch my cycling legs after spending most of the last 24 hours squashed into buses and trains.
The tour took all of the morning, and almost all of my energy, so I devoted the rest of the day to slightly more relaxing activities: a trip to the post office to send my bike bag back to the UK (thanks to the very patient lady there for helping me sort out the customs forms —another brexit bonus — and explaining the various insurance options in the simplest German possible), a quick visit to the castle, and plenty of stops for ice-cream and other essential sustenance.
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Tomorrow, after this very extended warm-up, the actual trip begins!
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