Day 33

I got up around 8:50 and made my way to the U6 platform at the train station by 9:30. I met Stephen and Andy there and we hopped on a train to Karlsplatz. Once we hopped off at the station it took us a little while to find the Naschmarkt, but eventually we did! It was probably about a mile long, filled with fresh food stalls, spice stores, and clothing shops.

We meandered from the start all the way to the end. Andy and I lost Stephen about ¾ of the way through due to a guy selling old records. He probably spent a good 45 minutes there, but walked away as the proud owner of a Carpenters record and a Chicago record.

I accidentally haggled for a belt. The guy at the stall saw that I was eyeing a belt and said that I could buy it for €15. I told him that I would walk around the market and then see him later, but then he kept on insisting. Thinking that I only had €9 with me, I told him that I didn't have enough and would need to come back. He kept on insisting and when I told him that I had €9, he said that he'd sell it to me to that price. Sadly (but not sadly), I had forgotten that I had also brought along about €6 more in change. So when I was paying him and selecting coins from my hand to give him, he clearly saw that I was lying (oops!).

When we got hungry we ended up stopping at a stand and getting a box of noodles (with veggies for me and meat for Andy and Stephen). We sat down on the overpass of the U-bahn and ate our lunches. Afterwards we took the U-bahn to Haus Salzburg where Stephen dropped off his groceries. We went to his room and he started listening to music and farting around on his computer. Andy was busying himself with his phone so I laid down on the floor and napped for a bit. We ended up staying there for an hour. I woke up when I heard one of them mention my name. We got ready to go.

We took the U4 to the U1 and took that to the Belvedere Palace. Stephen had read that the alpine garden there was the oldest in Europe and very beautiful on a sunny day. When we got to the palace we sat on the steps of upper Belvedere looking out over the courtyard (which had to be at least a ¾ of a mile long) towards lower Belevedere. We sat there and talked about how much nicer it'll all look when it's actually spring and how much we'd like to take our families there.

After about 15 minutes there we looked around for the alpine garden. Sadly it was closed, but we did get to take a peek inside before we left. We ended up taking the 13A bus back towards the office. On the way we stopped at Bar Salzburg to ask where to buy a specific beer that they had. We got directions to a local grocery store and found the same brand there but sadly not the specific beer. :-(

We headed to the office and watched Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark in German. Andy had to answer a phone call at one point so Stephen and I played darts and switched to watching The Sound of Music. Once Andy came back, we finished the movie and then headed home.