I was wrong when I said the Salzburg post was the biggest ever. THIS post is the biggest, EVER. It is huge.
We rode the night train from Salzburg to Venice, which wasn’t too bad at all, because our seats pulled out to lie flat. A German or Austrian soldier came in from around 2-4am, which meant we each got a pull-out section, but after he left John and I were able to have a 3-seat side each, which is basically like a couch. I was afraid I wasn’t going to be able to sleep at all, with my back hurting, but I did get some sleep, and felt nicely refreshed by the time we got to Venice!
This is what we saw coming out of the train station. (That church with the too-big-for-its-britches dome is San Simeon Piccolo.*) It poured rain until the midafternoon. (more…)
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