Day 018: Salzburg, Austria; first train trip
08/20/07 10:49 PM Filed in: Austria
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
friends.
Day
18 — Salzburg, Austria; first train trip
20-August-1971
(Fri.)
TRANSCRIPT
Salzburg
Salzburg trip.
An adventure on my own.
My first train trip.
It must be pretty hard to believe that I didn’t have a train trip before...but this was my first. I learned a lot:
• It’s easy to get sick on a train.
• When you don’t reserve a seat – you stand.
• You always pay more at a travel agency.
I really didn’t enjoy it—standing—but the scenery was Beautiful. The countryside is lovely. I hope that my “moving pictures from a train,” I mean “pictures from a moving train” – come out, otherwise losing my lens-shade out the window would have been in vain.
Immediately upon arrival, it began to hail. There is also no student service which is worthwhile in Salzburg.
In the Mozarteum, I happened to discover a flute recital by summer students—excellent. [Concert 03] I also met one student from Fairlawn [NJ]. Planned to meet others.
REFLECTIONS
This was a surprise, even 36 years later. Why did I suddenly decide to go to Salzburg? Did someone tell me to go, or was I reading about the wonderful summer music festival in Salzburg? Probably both and so I suspect it wasn’t sudden. So, I went. Good thing.
Salzburg arrival. When I arrive in Salzburg, I am greeted by a hail storm. Hmmm, was that some kind of sign? I also complain about the student service not being good. While I don’t remember (I could be wrong), I can guess that I arrive, luggage in hand, walk to find a “student service” and that perhaps they can’t find me an available room. Complaining is natural. When you’re young though, I now think that you don’t always see the “big picture.” THE BIG PICTURE—I’m in Salzburg without a reservation, during a major INTERNATIONAL music festival, with ALL rooms most likely booked up, and I blame someone else for not finding me a room? Big picture, John! [Have you ever tried to get a reasonably-priced room to the Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah) during the Sundance Film Festival? Or it could be that I didn’t find any student service. I wish I could remember the detail.]
My complaining is light. I don’t generally feel like I’m a complaining type of person, except now that I’m getting older, I’m just grumpy. As a youngster, I’m just noting my frustration. Please forgive any future complaining that I do in the journal.
Imagine what my memory of this year would be without pictures? Pictures are memories. [Kodak, you can advertise here.]
Today is a great time to learn photography, with digital cameras, great Mac and PC software, and classes, books, websites, and podcasts to get you started.
Flickr. Since photography will be a large part of this adventure, I will change my Flickr Pro account to something like “36yearsago” and hopefully post a few photos there. Perhaps, you will join us as friends and share your journal or travel photos as well. You can set up a free Flickr account at Flickr.com.
Back to Salzburg.
Sometimes I wish I had written more detail about what I did on each sightseeing adventure.
John
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