Country Hopping by Foot: Photos 42 to 63

Four countries, two days, more walking than you can imagine. It's a beautiful thing.

Monday morning, Libor and I were at the train station at the ungodly hour of 5:30am to catch our train at 5:45. At about 10 we pulled into Salzburg, though we were late in catching our connecting train since we weren't travelling with ÖBB [Österreichische Bundesbahn], but die Deutsche Bahn. Let us be a little prejudiced, ok? We've lived in Austria for almost 6 months now, of course there's animosity between us and Germany :) Anyways, after waiting a half-hour in Salzburg, we boarded the train, took a small ride through Germany, went through Innsbruck, and at about 3:30 on Monday afternoon arrived in Feldkirch, one of the western-most cities in Austria, which only took us about 10 hours to get to. For some perspective, my flight from Boston to Frankfurt back in September was about 7 hours. Needless to say, we were both going insane since we had barely eaten all day [we were supposed to get into Feldkirch at 1pm, so were planning on just eating there], and had been cooped up in the train for hours.

Anyways, we arrived, checked into our

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Thanks for the Federer thing. It kind of looked like him on the money you had a picture of. Second, I don't think you should be going places without your passport on you. Doesn't seem smart.

I don't need to carry my passport, I have a card that I have with me that replaces my passport, 'cause it lists me as an inhabitant of Austria, so I only need my passport when I'm in another country...it's a pretty sweet deal haha

One lucky guy!

Awesome pictures, Matthew

I can't believe how beautiful and storybook Switzerland is! You are some lucky guy! I am so jealous!!! I'm sure you've sent my swiss chocolate valentine - it's probably in the mail! You look fabulous and so happy! Miss you! xok

Thanks for the Federer thing. It kind of looked like him on the money you had a picture of. Second, I don't think you should be going places without your passport on you. Doesn't seem smart.

I don't need to carry my passport, I have a card that I have with me that replaces my passport, 'cause it lists me as an inhabitant of Austria, so I only need my passport when I'm in another country...it's a pretty sweet deal haha

One lucky guy!

Awesome pictures, Matthew

I can't believe how beautiful and storybook Switzerland is! You are some lucky guy! I am so jealous!!! I'm sure you've sent my swiss chocolate valentine - it's probably in the mail! You look fabulous and so happy! Miss you! xok