Day 10, to Venice.

Mike and I were talking about the order of the trip this morning and saying how glad we were that we’d already been to the next couple of destinations. We have seen so much beauty we’ve become a bit jaded. We were joking on our beautiful walk back from our Sound of Music that Salzburg was lovely but, meh, who cares. We didn’t really feel that way but Bruges and the Alps were both so stunningly picturesque Salzburg’s beauty is nice but unequal to what we’ve seen so far. Since we’ve been to Venice and Paris we now what to expect and have already been wowed by these cities. It’d be a shame to have our first experience of Venice and Paris after Bruges and the Alps.

So, we had breakfast at the hotel and it was yummy. Good cheeses, meats, amazing bacon and eggs. Mike had the traditional Salzburg wet eggs. (Actually he tried squirting a little ketchup on his eggs and just got a squirt of liquid.) No croissants but yummy pretzel bread.

This place was across from our hotel. I was hoping it was a urologist but Mike tells me its a watch repair shop. I was very disappointed .

A quick taxi to the train station got us there in plenty of time to have our tickets printed and spend 20 minutes in the first class lounge.

…prickelnd! Because it’s prickly! Not sparkly!

Up to the track and away we go to Venice via Innsbruck.

Strap for your baby carriage so it doesn’t roll onto the train tracks. And mike playing peekaboo.

We’d come through Innsbruck on the way to Salzburg. Now we leave Innsbruck and head over the Brenner Pass into Italy. The pass was lovely.

I got a little cramped in my seat so I headed up to the dinning car and grabbed an espresso so I could be in a less crowded space.

There was a little old German lady in the dining car with her husband and every time we’d come across a lovely valley or Mountain View she would exclaim in delight. It was very sweet.

The covering on the side of this truck is the material that our Freitag bags are made from. We kept seeing trucks and and saying, “ohh, that would make a nice bag!”

Our train pulled into Venice and we grabbed a couple of 72 hour Vaporetto passes (water bus, the primary public transportation in Venice) and rode the bus boat for 20 minutes or so to our stop. A quick walk down through St. Barnabas Square and ww were at our hotel.