Let’s just say the hotel rooms are…a little warm. We’ve all turned our heat completely off and have been sleeping with the windows open, but man, the temperature in this room is HOT. In other news, the floors of the bathroom are heated which one wouldn’t normally think about, but once you’ve experienced it, I’m not sure I ever want to go back to regular old floors during the cold months.
Today was a pretty good day. After work we had a little time to walk around the city. Sadly I lost a mitten in the morning so I ended up with one cold hand. It’s chilly here. It’s not unbearable-I-can’t-open-my-eyes-and-my-legs-are-going-to-fall-off-cold, but it’s definitely still in the winter phase here. Just when it looked like spring was starting in DC.
We looked into going to the Opera but the only tickets that were available were either standing room only or the seats where you can’t actually see anything. We figured we’d try our luck at getting some standing room only tickets if we had the time, but a missed time dinner adventure sort of squashed those plans.
Look! It’s Hotel Sacher. They make cake. Or a torte. Called a Sachertorte. Betcha couldn’t have guessed that. I tried this last time I was here in Salzburg, but this is the original place. The cake is chocolate cake with an apricot filling and it’s kinda dry. Apparently it’s supposed to be that way. It’s also ridiculously expensive. I’m on the fence on whether I want to give it another try.
Dinner was…an experience. Actually, getting to dinner was an experience. It was suggested to us that we try this place called Salm Bräu which is this restaurant where they brew their own beer. Being that I’m with a bunch of beer appreciating fellas, this seemed like a good idea. The only problem is, we never really figured out where it was. Instead we hopped on the U-bahn, popped out at a station we thought was close, and started walking. And walking. And walking. And then we asked for directions because we had been walking for a really long time and it turned out we were walking in the wrong direction. So then we kept walking. And walking. And walking. And then we asked for directions again and it turned out we were sort of walking in the right direction. Then we all started losing feeling in our faces. But we kept walking. And walking. And walking. And when hope was almost lost, we stumbled upon the restaurant.
It’s this cool little brew pub where they have 4 of their beers on tap. Being that I was in Austria, at a brew pub, I figured I’d give beer another try. Yeah, being in another country doesn’t make me like beer more. I forget the exact name of my beer, but in the description it was “a beer for all ages!” We had pretzels with our beer and I felt very appropriately German. And then I drank a Coke.
For dinner I had spaezle. It was delicious and greasy and I couldn’t finish the whole thing. I asked for it to be wrapped up because I saw someone walking out with their meal wrapped like a swan and I was all about getting a bird-shaped doggie bag. Sadly, my leftovers were wrapped up in more of a…potato shape.
After dinner we came back to the hotel where I promptly fell asleep. I haven’t done a great job adjusting my sleep schedule here (which is apparent as I am writing this at 5:45 in the morning). However, I think I’m going to try to hit the sack for a few more winks. I wonder what kind of fun adventures are in store for us tomorrow!