Today is our first train ride (many more to come) in Austria. We are leaving most of our stuff in Vienna, taking just a small backpack to Hallstatt, a picturesque town in the middle of Austria.
Yesterday, we learned that in World War I, American soldiers brought the “American Flu” to Austria. Well, it appears that the Austrians are paying it forward. Deb and I have both caught colds.
The train ride was through rolling hills, until it wasn’t. The landscape became strikingly rugged in an instant. The town of Hallstatt was only accessible by ship until the late 1800’s. You can now drive here, but the train station is on the other side of the lake, so you need to take a small passenger ferry to get to the town. We stopped for a beer and an aperol spritz. On the way back to the hotel, we stopped to share some beef goulash. And yet, there was room for an apple strudel.
Tomorrow is suppose to be cold and rainy. Not exactly sure what that mean to our plans.
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