We're alive! After Munich we headed to Salzburg for 2 perfect days. We ate 2 meals of curry, I tried a tofu schnitzel (as awful as it sounds), CLIMBED AN ALP (!!!!!!), rode a tandem bike through the city (laughed our butts off at first as we tried to figure out how to steer and pedal the thing. A group of people on their lunch break stood and watched/laughed at us as we screamed and laughed and kept falling over), got very little sleep due to a snoring girl in the hostel both nights, and went on a salt mine tour (it was actually a Bavarian Mountain/ Salt Mine tour, so we rode up a mountain in one of those huge tour buses--I almost cried from the heights and Katie almost puked from the driving). The tour was cool, we saw the hill where Julie Andrews sings The Hills Are Alive, as well as the Eagles Nest from a distance. Once we made it to the salt mine we had to put on some (super cute) heavy-duty overalls and took a cart 600 meters into the mountain. We got to ride down 2 slides in the moutain and taste some saltwater that comes from a lake in the moutain. Pretty cool! Except most of the other people on the tour were French and SO RUDE. Katie and I were looking at some information on a touchscreen when a group of French women came over, stood next to Katie and then kinda shoved her out of the way and changed the language from English to French. So that was great.
We are now in Bologna, leaving for Napoli tomorrow. Bologna has been beautiful (the train ride from Salzburg to Naples was breathtaking); it has much more character than Salzburg and the people are very friendly. Last night we walked around the town (it's much easier to get lost here than in the other two cities we've been in) before sitting down for our first Italian meal. We had intended to get a small meal, but the menu was overwhelming and wonderful. We ended up getting bruschetta, eggplant parm, and spaghetti with tomatoes and basil. Plus a bottle of wine. IT WAS SO GOOD. Katie had a hankering for tiramisu, so after that enormous dinner we walked to another restaurant down the street for wine and dessert (vino y dolce ?). Our waiter, Armundo, was wonderful and invited us to a bar down the street after he got off work. We did, because he is the most beautiful thing either of us has ever laid eyes on, and had a wonderful time.
This morning we had to switch hotels, which ended up being an ordeal as our reservation for the second hotel was lost along the way and they didn't have a room for us. However, the wonderful woman running the hotel worked something out and had another room for us at another hotel reserved for the same price. It's about 7 now. We are going to have a cappuccino and maybe some gelato.
Tomorrow we're off to Naples! Hopefully we'll have internet there and can update more regularly.
Love you, Karen
Theyàre kicking us out of the internet cafe because they are closing, update when I can-- hi everyone, thinking of you and we love you :) Katie
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