Here's the view of our place - it's back in a quiet, professional neighborhood. Since it's getting so hot (and over the next couple days close to 100 deg F), no real fan and no A/C is a problem. We all end up walking around in underwear - sorry/you're welcome neighbors!
This is the passageway through the NeuTor (New Door). It's nice and cool, since it's going through a MOUNTAIN. As it gets hotter, this will be more and more a favorite part of the walks :)
Lots of political graffiti. Not sure what it means to smash the state, clearly the state can provide much that individuals cannot. but I do agree we're moving beyond a physical border and more to a "geographically distributed concept-and-values tribal system". As with almost everything, there are pros and cons of this.
The other side of the Neu Tor.
I like to imagine the 3 guys on the left complaining and the one on the right saying "hey, it's not that hard, look at me - no hands and I'm not complaining all day..."
This chain has been around for a LONG time. Check out the wear marks, probably mostly from simple gravity, applied constantly for a hundred years (well, thinking about it, probably mostly corrosion that creates grooves and gravity that reinforces it, but anyway...)
The March of the Pickles - they're off to worship their god (which, curiously, has taken human form).
This looks like about a d100! No more 2d10, just 1d100!
This is the lock bridge Amy and I are going to leave a little something to remember us by.
The Festung watches over all of us
"Mozart! Do you know what happened to the other kugeln? Uhhhh, why are you asking me?"
Somehow I doubt that if Mozart came back he'd be a tagger.
As we were making our way to the Festung, we took the "back route" and ended up seeing a lot of cool things off the beaten path in Salzburg. Quiet neighborhoods as well as going up through Nonnberg. It's a nunnery [sic] that's been in business since 713 CE. Crazy (in a couple of ways).
We've breached the wall! Inside the fortress!
Sign and interior of Coffeesmith. Best (!) coffee we've had in all of Europe. Barista knows his stuff, and they have an interesting origin story. Stop by, you won't be sad.
Later that night, Amy and I went to the Augustinierbrau (Maya was happy to stay back and have some "me" time). This was fairly soon after we passed by a group of teens/young adults on the side of the trail that were definitely up to no good. Things got pretty abruptly quiet for a minute as we passed... :D But it was another beautiful walk, and although it was a Thursday night, when we got there, the place was HOPPING.
This was on the walk to the Augustinierbrau - Amy is totally in her element. Salzburg and the great outdoors are 100% her thing.
Another cool ancient tablet - can't tell how old, but I'm guessing "extremely".
The Promised Land! By the way, if one of the main pursuits of monks is to make kickass beer, I'm more open to encouraging that sort of behavior.
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Told you it was busy! Took Amy 25 mins in line to get a beer (she was wielding two one-liter steins that must have easily weighed 1 kg each, empty).
After we got the food from inside and Amy left to get the beer, a nice older couple asked in German if they could share our table (there were none left, the pic above doesn't really do it justice). I said "of course!", but then didn't really pay too much attention to them. I wasn't trying to be rude, I just wasn't in much of a mood to interlocute my extremely-limited Germlish with a couple of strangers. Eventually Amy came back, and we had a lovely dinner, talked, etc. It wasn't until about 30 mins after Amy showed up that we realized that the couple not only spoke English, they were from Scotland! We had some pretty far-reaching and deep conversation with them.
Political rant follows...
It was pretty surreal to be experiencing this on July Fourth, but it was so nice to talk with people from other countries and feel like we could represent a kinder, saner America. They simply couldn't believe how much I pay in healthcare premiums (they also then thought after I paid that my medical was paid for, HA!)
All of this, while back home we had the dictatorial-curious, Red Square parade loving, egomaniac pulling funding from parks and Pentagon training to pay for the military fly-overs and tanks on the streets. What a fucking shit show. It's a pretty scary time in America. Minor consolation was that it didn't just rain on his parade, it POURED.
But I'm thankful 45* was able to bring attention to the brave efforts of the Colonials as they fought to maintain control of the airports in 17-fucking-76. Who knows how the Revolution would have gone if the Brits would have taken them?
What an absolute embarrassment, 25th Amendment that mofo already.
Every day is a new level - there is no bottom
Happy Birthday, USA - enjoy it while you still can
This is more my level of sculpture ability.
Thought this was funny
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