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09:32: I’ve arranged to stay an extra two nights; today I’ll plan my trip to Salzburg and tomorrow I’ll visit the Alte Pinakothek. €66.00 to stay two more nights. That makes it a week here! 3+2+2 nights.
I satyed up late (01:30 or later) reading Hacker News and the Guardian. In the UK, lots of people were killed by a fire in a housing tower block. The landlords were clearly negligent. A man drove a truck into people at Finsbury Park mosque. Politicians express outrage at these events. I shrug. What difference does any emotional reaction on my part make to the world?
As a result of staying up late, I treated myself to an hour-long lie-in and still had plenty of time to be up and dressed and washed in time for breakfast. The breakfasts here are pretty good — nearly every morning I’ve had Müsli with yoghurt, canned fruit and honey, grainy bread rolls with butter, cheese and marmalade and two-bag cups of tea with milk. Now I’m sitting at a table in the large and pleasant garden courtyard reading Konrad Zuse’s paper submitted to the conference on “Computing in the 20th Century”. At the Deutches Museum I saw reconstructions of his Z3 and Z4 computers.
I’m going to sit and read for another hour or so, and then tackle planning my route onwards. I know which maps I need to get me into Slovenia, but I’ve not yet bought those maps that get me there from Salzburg.
12:22: Heading to my room to collect maps and phone and battery.
14:10:11
14:20: In another Turkish restaurant on the street, about to have spinach bürek with salad and Turkish tea for lunch. I had a bit of head-melting conversation with Aisling to help her diagnose network glitches at home. Turned out to be Virgin, as always.
14:23:26
15:04: €11.70 for lunch. The teas were €2.20 each which is twice the price of a standard Turkish restaurant. This place is a restaurant connected to a bar and the bar proprietor made is clear that I was to order the tea from him. Fucking rent-seeker.
18:04: I’ve spent the afternoon working out my route to Salzburg. It’s making me anxious. I’ll have a couple of wild nights. My first proper campsite will be at Seebruck, on the northern shore of Chiemsee.
19:08: OK, finally got my route to Salzburg figured out. It’s four 30 km stretches: the first two nights wild camping, the third and fourth nights are on campsites near lakes and the night of the fifth day is in the hostel in Salzburg. I could take a rest day in one or other of the campsites.
One of the maps I’ve bought is redundant. I should get in the habit of including explanatory notes when I send maps to my mum.
19:12:32
19:25: In my room. I think I’ll pop out to a café or a bar to chill out for the rest of the evening. I’m not that hungry for dinner.
21:08:49
22:20: Aisling’s booked her flights and an AirBnB in Zagreb! She’ll be here from the evening of the 21st until the morning of 28 July. So a shorter trip than last time in Reims but my God it’ll be good to see her — and perhaps less painful when we have to part. So I have a month to get to Zagreb!
Lunch was pretty substantial and quite late, so I didn’t head out for dinner until about quarter to ten. I sat in a restaurant perusing a menu but I couldn’t get excited despite them having a dish that featured spinach. I just had a hot chocolate instead. €4.50. It was offensively large, served in a breakfast-bowl-sized cup.
23:28: €6.60 for a sit-down ice-cream.
