Here are Skip and Maddie at our rental car right before we realize the car won't run--even though Skip has faithfully started the engine each day we've been there. The engine would start, but cut out as soon as you tried to go anywhere. With the help of a hotel employee, we learn that the diesel fuel in the car has frozen solid. He helped Skip tow the car into a tiny garage and placed heaters on the car to warm up the fuel--delaying our trip into Salzburg by two hours. We were just grateful we had decided to head into Salzburg that day and didn't wait until we needed to get to the airport on Saturday to learn about this problem.
Maddie at a Salzburg prezel stand
Salzburg was nice, but COLD!
The interior of one of the many churches in Salzburg
this is the weather on the day of our departure. A 2 1/2 hour trip to the airport took almost 6. Fortunately, our plane was delayed, so we made it!
Winter Wonderland
A view of the traffic coming down the mountain. Little did we know this was merely a preview of what was to come traffic and weather-wise as we made our way to the airport in Munich
Though the weather was far from perfect, Skip had that bout with a 24-hour bug and I had a perpetually stopped-up nose, we had a great vacation. The Hotel Kesselspitze in Obertauern may be our favorite place ever. The facilities, the staff and the food could not have been any better. Since everything was right where we were, there was no running around, no real time schedule to keep. There were plenty of things to do and plenty of time to just hang out together.
We hope to make it back there some day.
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