Next morning we packed and went to the train station to enquire about train times. The poor information guy was quite baffled when I asked him when the next train is going to somewhere nice, about an hour away. He just kept saying - what city do you want? and we kept saying - anywhere nice. We ended up saddling up and using our rabbit cards to go to a place called St. Polten.
It is a little nothing town, we walked around for an hour than sat at the station pissing ourselves over the bad English in the town brochure. You really know a town has nothing to offer when they include in the tourist brochure that new bicycle stands have been erected, and that the city is the centre for the Austrian Medical Insurance Industry. We did pass one interesting sight - a photo shoot with an ugly girl standing on a brass bed in the street with a brown coat on and holding an umbrella.
So far I have used a camera spool in Greece, Yugoslavia, and another whole one in Vienna and Salzburg. Back on the train we made for Krems - a small town in the Vienna Woods and on the Danube, north of Wien (Vienna). The town was cute with cobbled streets and small shops. Also a church with hourly chimes. We walked miles to the tourist office, to be told that the youth hostel is closed, and the cheapest accommodation was $20. So we got back on the train and still using our Rabbit Card, went to Salzburg. We found a great hostel for $10 and lots of perks i.e. they show Sound of Music every day. So we caught up on some letter writing and had a huge German sausage, Camembert, and watched the Sound of Music.
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