Our bike tour left from the Mirabell Gardens at 9:30, and I woke up around 7:30 to make sure I had time to shower. That is one of the things that can be frustrating at hostels—sometimes you have to wait for a while for a shower to open up, and it is difficult to gauge how long the wait might be. That definitely happened at the 3 Ducks in Paris, but not here. Add that to another one of the reasons why this hostel is so much better than the last =] We decided...

My train to Salzburg left Jena at 6am this morning... which meant that I needed to leave my flat at 5:10ish to catch the Strassenbahn to the station. It's a good thing I am used to getting up early for practice, but I still couldn't believe it when my alarm went off at 4:20. I'm sure it probably had something to do with the fact that I didn't get to bed until after 1... The trip on the train went fairly smoothly with stops in Nürnberg and München. The time ...