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08:59: Up and about at about 07:30 and into the shower. It’s another grey and showery day, as forecast. I’m heading into town now to get some breakfast.
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11:11: Took my time over a breakfast of scrambled egg at a hippie restaurant devoted to an Indian guru. €6.40 I think. I couldn’t justify almost €4.00 for tea. Turns out my daily budget is €40.00 for the rest of the trip, if I’m to have a decent cushion to land on when I get home. That means a lot more supermarket meals, and a lot more campsites and wild camping.
Next, I’m going to wander towards the town centre.
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11:43: €12.90 to send some maps home (a map and several map pockets); €9.00 for postage, €2.29 for the envelope.
11:57: €2.95 for a bottle of insect repellent. I’m feeling really glum.
12:50: Can’t drag myself into the tourist section of the city centre. Why do I want to be there? €8.50 for a decent lunch of hot chocolate, Apfelschorle, an omelette sandwich and a spinach sandwich.
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14:07: Back on the bus after a €3.00 ice cream. I’m gonna stop in Lidl and get some bits for dinner and breakfast. Good the fuck bye Salzburg.
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14:57: €11:98 for several day’s worth of porridge, honey and fruit and nut mix, an 800g tin of bean soup, bread, cheese, scallions, apple, ready-to-eat salad. I am utterly sleep-deprived.
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15:15: Rain starts to fall just as I arrive back at the tent. I’d hoped to move it, but let’s see how that goes. I think I’ll have a snooze. On the plus side, the socks, jocks tee and hat hanging in the tent are dry.
16:56: So the rain is pelting down now. I’m in the café area again, this time fetching a backlog of many podcasts — I was down to the last two or three. I’ve also started a trilogy of novels, the Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, written sometime in the late 1960s I think. I needed to switch to fiction after embarking on History of Computing: Software Issues (Hashagen) and Pickering’s The Mangle of Practice. Very interesting and relevant ideas regarding whether testing is even a separate profession. The concepts of “agenda setting” or “boundary work” indicate that it is not an integrated profession.
18:17: I’m back under the tent, about to heat some beans. Tonight will be my eighth night under the basha. It’s raining again. My phone is fully charged and I consumed a gigabyte of Wi-Fi data to fetch the podcasts — €3.00. Amazingly, still cheaper than say a hostel at €30 per night with free Wi-Fi.
