I feel much better today. Thanks to the kind words of support from my family and friends, and even friends of my family (thanks Mom for sharing my blog), I know that I can get past this bump in the road. I have my iPad and it will fill in where my phone was helping me before. The phone is completely dead at this point which is a shame because I’m paying for international roaming and can’t even use it. Also, you kind of need a phone to call AT&T to cancel said international roaming. Maybe I can try making a call with my iPad?!
Today I decided I would navigate with the paper map I got yesterday and through my own intuition. I’m happy to report that I hardly used the map! If you know me at all, I’m terrible with directions and need to map everything. But today, I just wandered, knowing I had to climb up some stairs and deciphered the diagrams on signs to find Festung Hohensalzburg. It’s a really cool fortress that you must hike to get up to (or cheat and take the funicular but where’s the fun in that?). The entrance fee was 9.40 euros which included an audio guide and free ride (one way) on the funicular. The views of Salzburg are amazing from the top:
I rode the funicular down because that was a free thrill ride! Well I paid for it so I had to use it. It ended up dropping me off at Domplatz and I went inside the church there. I don’t know the name but it’s 1 of 100 churches in Salzburg – see all the church domes in the last picture above???
I saw this statue and I felt like that yesterday:
But never fear, I’m back in survival mode and am sitting comfortably at my beer garden/free internet spot for the 3rd day in a row. I’ve seen the same waiter for 3 days now and I can’t figure out what’s sadder – a guy working every day at this restaurant or a girl coming in every day to use the WiFi. Tomorrow I’m off to Vienna via train. I’ve already downloaded offline maps to use on my iPad and if all else fails, you pay for a taxi to drive you right to your front door. Well not my front door, but the front door of my next lodging place.
There She Goes... 