We can't pass up our free breakfast here in Augsburg. We are located directly across the street from the HBF so it's easier to judge our time for leaving to catch our train, the 9:42am, which will get us into Salzburg about noon. Our packing in the mornings has been simplified even more by using another technique developed by Mom which you may want to make note of. You already know about the "Throw clothes away to make room for more stuff" method she cam...

The hotel we're staying at is great. We got stuck in a suite since we had to add an extra night but it was nice last night. Ya, $300 nice! We had another free breakfast this morning and then walked about 6 blocks down to the US Consulate to replace our stolen passports. Since my passport was the only thing of mine that was taken, I still had my ID, copy of our passports, wallet, etc. Mom has lost all of her stuff so it's harder for her. We had to st...

It's still raining today. We got our free breakfast. I called the US Consulate in Vienna, Austria as soon as they opened. They made an appointment for us tomorrow at 9:30am. Bring our paperwork too. OK. Now we have a plan. I called the Hotel Stephanplatz and asked if they had a room available Monday night. We were already booked on Tuesday but we needed to get to Austria right away. They had a room but, unfortunately it was a suite. We had to miss our ...