We left Vienna today and traveled to Salzburg – through some beautiful, idyllic towns with rolling hills and bucolic farmland. Vienna was fantastic – gentile and refined and amazingly there were wifi cafes everywhere – especially in the neighborhood where we stayed (this comes into play later). We saw some amazing architecture and enjoyed the many hours spent walking throughout the town. Here are some of the more catchy pics from Vienna (Wien in German):
When we arrived in Salzburg, we were immediately struck by its combination of natural and man-made beauty. Gorgeous and it reminded us of North Bend, WA (if you know the area) with the way the mountains abutted the town. Unfortunately and a little fortunate as well, we spent several unintentional hours wandering around the city of Salzburg today searching for wifi access. You see, we were absolutely certain that our newly built hotel that guaranteed wifi in the room would work well with Maylene’s work. As it turns out, the wifi works but doesn’t allow VPN pass-through. This means she can’t work in the room. We struck out soooo many times in our search — never successful, even trying to piggyback onto individual’s personal connections. When we finally got back to the hotel room, exhausted and frustrated from the search, Maylene found a signal on the corner of the road about a block from the hotel. Only problem is that she had to sit outside facing the road for half of the night working and being constantly stared at, because really, how weird would that look? Especially in an older town like Salzburg!
We’ll be sight-seeing tomorrow until Maylene has to go to work again – I hope we can find somewhere more comfortable for her to work – pics will follow. I was far too exasperated to really thoroughly enjoy my walk around Salzburg nor to take any pics but hopefully we’ll be in better spirits tomorrow.
Until then…a hui hou….