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30 Jul 2016
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The plan is to head to the camp ground at the north end of the lake, set up and hope they have a restaurant. If not it is a 5 km ride to the town. We arrive to the packed camp site, but found a patch of grass in one corner just big enough for our tent. We started to set up and a couple of Dutch riders came over with a plate of grilled meats, vegetables, and bread for us. They said “ you have arrived so late (7 pm) that you must be starved and you must eat this”. Then they said “ We are just over there and we have  so see you soon”. Super nice group of Dutch and Swiss riders that we spent a very nice evening with. Luckily the tuk shop was still open and we could get some s for them as a thank you. Got to LOVE the biker community!
 Glossglockner-17 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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30 Jul 2016
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We woke up to a nice sunny day and since we only had an hour and a half drive to Salzburg we planned a loop out into the Austrian hills.
 Screen Shot 2016-07-20 at 21.15.52 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
This was thru picturesque Austrian villages, past several lakes, and thru the mountains. It is very green, clean, and very pretty here. Austria is AWESOME!!
 Salzburg CC-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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31 Jul 2016
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We pulled into the city at just after 4 and it was 28 degrees in the shade and the sun was blazing.
“Salzburg is an Austrian city on the German border, with views of the Eastern Alps. It’s known as the birthplace of Mozart and setting for the film “The Sound of Music.” The city is divided by the Salzach River, with medieval and baroque buildings of the pedestrian Altstadt (Old City) on its left bank, and 19th-century Neustadt (New City) on the right.”
We hid out in the hotel until after 6 and then walked the 2.5 km into the city centre. Here we wandered around the very pretty down town area and then crossed the river and explore the walled old city. Here there are narrow pedestrian streets with smaller interconnecting alley ways. You have several large squares, a number of churches and the castle towering on the hilltop.
 Salzburg-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Salzburg-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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Even Mc Donalds in the old city has a fancy sign.
 Salzburg-5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Salzburg-6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
People are like gerkins we are all different.
 Salzburg-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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31 Jul 2016
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We are crossing the north of the country from Salzburg to Wien (Vienna). On the small roads the trip is 5 hours, but on the toll road it is only 3. Since we plan to take the toll road to Slovenia later in the week we opted to just get the vignette today. You can buy them at any gas station and this allows you to drive on the highways, but some of the tunnels have extra tolls. So we had a quick, but fairly boring ride to Vienna.
 Screen Shot 2016-07-20 at 21.16.57 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We planned to stay 2 days in Vienna and since hotels and especially the parking rates are outrageous in the city centre we stayed outside the downtown, but with free parking and at a reasonable rate. The hotel is directly on the 71 tram line to the centre. Dan’s 800 was doing some weird things on the way into the city. The dash lights flashing on and off, the fuel light coming on and off. The bike itself was running normally. This had happened one time in Italy for a few seconds, but today it was coming and going. Luckily we were close to the hotel. We hooked up the GS 911, but noted the fuel sensor was displaced from the port by quite a bit and he pushed it back in. The 911 said there was a loss of communication from the cam bus and there were hundreds of fault codes. The problem did not recur and the bike is running well, but there must be a loose or frayed wire somewhere as the fault codes are still occurring. We will have to do a thorough check to find out where.
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31 Jul 2016
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We escaped the heat for a few hours in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of fine art. Here there is a great mix of art forms and styles. There is a large number of “curiosity” objects that the rich collected or used to entertain guests. These included huge rock crystal carved vases that look like glass, all kinds of art with exotic materials, and automatons for example. We also managed to have some pretty good Wienerschnitzel in Wein!
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1 Aug 2016
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Such Great Pictures and detail. Remember some of those from the 60's. Keep it up. Much appreciated.
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1 Aug 2016
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Such Great Pictures and detail. Remember some of those from the 60's. Keep it up. Much appreciated.
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Hey thanks! headed to the Transalpina and Transfagarian this week in Romania! Cheers Sara
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1 Aug 2016
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From Vienna we were on a bit of a mission to make it to the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana for Friday afternoon since our friends there had taken the day off to show us around. This meant another boring 4 hours on the toll / vignette highway to the south and then west. Arriving we were greeted by our friends Goran & Šanin (Sha-neen) who we had met in Cumbuco Brazil in 2014. They told us to come just for the “human fish” found here, but Slovenia is such a great place to visit you don’t need tourist a gimmick Gogy!
 Screen Shot 2016-08-01 at 18.43.02 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 cave-dwelling-human-fish-lays-eggs-136403951126203901-160212141358 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
“The olm or proteus is an aquatic salamander in the family Proteidae, the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species found in Europe. In contrast to most amphibians, it is entirely aquatic; it eats, sleeps, and breeds underwater. Living in caves found in the Dinaric Alps, it is endemic to the waters that flow underground through the extensive limestone of the karst of Central and Southeastern Europe, specifically southern Slovenia.”
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1 Aug 2016
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We strolled the city, had a few s (with free hot dogs..love this place) and then some ice cream from a local Slovenian shop called Cacoa.
 Ljubljana-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Ljubljana-4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We ended the eating spree with a visit to “open kitchen” which is a street food party held here every Friday night. We had amazing ribs, local Dragon , and wine served in real classes. It was packed. They even have a gin and tonic stall. The town is full of people having a good time.
 Ljubljana-5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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We finished the evening with a stroll along the lake after sunset and some caipirinhas.
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