There was no way we were going be 20 minutes from the border of Austria – even better, the city of Salzburg – and not cross over into it. This colorful city was so much fun to walk through. It was just a short trip, but it was the perfect amount of time because weaving through tourists gets old pretty fast (for me at least). I loved the vibrant gardens, the old city buildings, and one of the, now, many lock bridges...
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Part V: Southern Germany
Just a 3 hour train ride south to Traunstein and a 20 minute drive to the small village of Petting and he was reunited with them again! I was very happy to meet them as well; I had heard a lot about them, especially Robert who accompanied David and a couple more of our friends on a boys trip to Ireland – hilarious stories from that trip involving sandwiches on the run and stinky socks! We were also pretty happy to be in Bavaria where they roll their R's in the front of their mouth instead of the back; which made understanding and speaking Deutsch much easier for us Americans...
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Part II: Cafe Babel
On our first midnight walk in Stuttgart (apparently that is becoming a tradition of our stay here) we headed aimlessly in and out, and up and down, of dimly-lit streets seeking adventure. On this particular walk there wasn't too much to see, but I did notice a couple of stools in a big window and was overjoyed to turn the corner and find they belonged to a cute little cafe. It was decided that we'd mosey our way back in the morning, and boy are we glad that we did! There's nothing like accidentally stumbling into an absolutely wonderful cafe in an unknown place...
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