Trip: Austria - Day 3 Linz, Day 4 Salzburg
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elusivekDay 3: Linz
We had some issue with our train tickets because of the heavy rains the previous week. The service agent I had to talk to in Vienna just... had me at my wits' ends. I don't recall exactly what it was though (good thing I forget about the bad things LOL), but it was like, because I bought the sparscheine ticket, it was only valid for that one particular train. But due to the cancellations, my ticket got turned into a "super"-ticket and was good for any train on that day. So I went to ask what I had to do, and the service agent just said, "it's valid for the day." "But WHAT do I have to do?" "You don't have to do anything! It's valid!" "But what does it mean? Do I need a paper that says my ticket is valid? So I can hop on any other train today? WHAT does it mean?" ugh. That was a conversation.
Once we reached Linz, we first headed to our hotel to drop off our bags. This was a weird hotel LOL. It's under renovation, I guess renovating to make it all cute. It's fine. But. The areas being renovated are not closed off, so we had to walk through a renovating corridor, wtf? And our room too, the... Trunking? Cladding? was still all open (where they drill a recess into the wall for the cabling/pipes/whatever).
My friend was the one and only Asian I saw on that day in Linz, haha!
After asking at the tourist info point, we got up the Postlingberg and had a quick bite with excellent views!
And very soon a bee came flying about our seat and we had to wave it off.
I wasn't exactly sure what the Grottenbahn was, I only knew it was some sort of train ride?
So we go look.
So it's a fairy tale train thingamajig.
The train made 3 round around that tunnel. First round the lights on the left wall was on, second round the lights on the right wall was on, and the last round all the lights went on.
After the train ride, we had to go down into a huge room, with small rooms that had displays of fairy tales.
Some fairy tales I sort of knew about, some I outright knew that Disney has "prettified" them... but there were also some weird fairy tales that just made me go WTF.
I know German fairy tales are usually dark but HEY! WHAT IS THE PRINCE DOING MARRYING THE TWO SISTERS???????????????????????? (I have never heard of this Snow-white and Rose-red)
We then just walked around a bit the Postlingberg. Going up, the train track was still under maintenance, so we were lucky by the time we left that the train track to fixed. The other weird thing is, there's no staff there, so who nobody really knew when the train would have come.
Back down in the Hauptplatz, we walked around and visited a few places I had marked.
We first saw this pedestrian green light but didn't notice, but apparently, there's quite a few LGBT(whatever else) pedestrian lights around.
Dinner location. Food wasn't bad.
We started to actually look at the traffic lights LOL
Day 4: Linz > Salzburg
I forgot to shoot a photo, but while the hotel itself was in a weird state due to the renovations, the hotel served EXCELLENT breakfast. I loved it. Thinking about it and I'm hungry again. After breakfast, we decided to explore a little more of the city, since our 24-hour card was still valid. But then we took a wrong turn and sort of got lost, then we had to rush back to the hotel to get our bags and onwards to our train towards Salzburg!
Once again, I booked a hotel right next to the train station, so it was just dropping them off, then off we went to hunt for lunch.
Found this place "Baerenwirt" where the internets say they serve great fried chicken, and wowzers they served GREAT FRIED CHICKEN. It was delivious!
OMG I want to eat that chicken again.
Christmas shops!
We got to Salzburg old town and since I've been here already and know more or less, I decided to skip this, while my friend went in to see.
So I just meandered around. I bought a St Christopher keychain, I remembered I did not have any St Christopher thing in my new car, so figured I might as well get that. (There's a follow up story to this key chain later back in Macau)
Had to hide in churches and shops as it was still drizzly.
Made our way back to the hotel as we had to get changed.
We virtually bought every brand of Mozartkugel that we saw (except for Mirabel)
We had an Opera Dinner at St Peter Stiftskulinarium. Food was okay. It's really more of a gimmick anyway.
Weird decor in this part of the restaurant.
What did I say, we were looking!
We had some issue with our train tickets because of the heavy rains the previous week. The service agent I had to talk to in Vienna just... had me at my wits' ends. I don't recall exactly what it was though (good thing I forget about the bad things LOL), but it was like, because I bought the sparscheine ticket, it was only valid for that one particular train. But due to the cancellations, my ticket got turned into a "super"-ticket and was good for any train on that day. So I went to ask what I had to do, and the service agent just said, "it's valid for the day." "But WHAT do I have to do?" "You don't have to do anything! It's valid!" "But what does it mean? Do I need a paper that says my ticket is valid? So I can hop on any other train today? WHAT does it mean?" ugh. That was a conversation.
Once we reached Linz, we first headed to our hotel to drop off our bags. This was a weird hotel LOL. It's under renovation, I guess renovating to make it all cute. It's fine. But. The areas being renovated are not closed off, so we had to walk through a renovating corridor, wtf? And our room too, the... Trunking? Cladding? was still all open (where they drill a recess into the wall for the cabling/pipes/whatever).
My friend was the one and only Asian I saw on that day in Linz, haha!
After asking at the tourist info point, we got up the Postlingberg and had a quick bite with excellent views!
And very soon a bee came flying about our seat and we had to wave it off.
I wasn't exactly sure what the Grottenbahn was, I only knew it was some sort of train ride?
So we go look.
So it's a fairy tale train thingamajig.
The train made 3 round around that tunnel. First round the lights on the left wall was on, second round the lights on the right wall was on, and the last round all the lights went on.
After the train ride, we had to go down into a huge room, with small rooms that had displays of fairy tales.
Some fairy tales I sort of knew about, some I outright knew that Disney has "prettified" them... but there were also some weird fairy tales that just made me go WTF.
I know German fairy tales are usually dark but HEY! WHAT IS THE PRINCE DOING MARRYING THE TWO SISTERS???????????????????????? (I have never heard of this Snow-white and Rose-red)
We then just walked around a bit the Postlingberg. Going up, the train track was still under maintenance, so we were lucky by the time we left that the train track to fixed. The other weird thing is, there's no staff there, so who nobody really knew when the train would have come.
Back down in the Hauptplatz, we walked around and visited a few places I had marked.
We first saw this pedestrian green light but didn't notice, but apparently, there's quite a few LGBT(whatever else) pedestrian lights around.
Dinner location. Food wasn't bad.
We started to actually look at the traffic lights LOL
Day 4: Linz > Salzburg
I forgot to shoot a photo, but while the hotel itself was in a weird state due to the renovations, the hotel served EXCELLENT breakfast. I loved it. Thinking about it and I'm hungry again. After breakfast, we decided to explore a little more of the city, since our 24-hour card was still valid. But then we took a wrong turn and sort of got lost, then we had to rush back to the hotel to get our bags and onwards to our train towards Salzburg!
Once again, I booked a hotel right next to the train station, so it was just dropping them off, then off we went to hunt for lunch.
Found this place "Baerenwirt" where the internets say they serve great fried chicken, and wowzers they served GREAT FRIED CHICKEN. It was delivious!
OMG I want to eat that chicken again.
Christmas shops!
We got to Salzburg old town and since I've been here already and know more or less, I decided to skip this, while my friend went in to see.
So I just meandered around. I bought a St Christopher keychain, I remembered I did not have any St Christopher thing in my new car, so figured I might as well get that. (There's a follow up story to this key chain later back in Macau)
Had to hide in churches and shops as it was still drizzly.
Made our way back to the hotel as we had to get changed.
We virtually bought every brand of Mozartkugel that we saw (except for Mirabel)
We had an Opera Dinner at St Peter Stiftskulinarium. Food was okay. It's really more of a gimmick anyway.
Weird decor in this part of the restaurant.
What did I say, we were looking!
