Salzburg, yesterday evening

Wow, do I love European trains. They're fast, clean, and way less expensive than flying. Except they do fly, as my train from Vienna to Salzburg did for part of the trip:

That screen capture from my phone's GPS monitor shows us moving at 229 km/h (143 mph) roughly here.

And then I landed in Salzburg. It's cute. I might even say lovely. But it's tiny—only 150,000 people or so—so it doesn't rise to Prague-like overwheliming beauty.

But it's a lot less touristy than I thought. It turns out, Salzburg is a college town more than anything else, with apparently one of the best psychology programs in the German-speaking world, as my bartender told me last night.

Today I popped over to Berchtesgaden, Germany. That post will hit later tonight.