Freiburg
- met up with a college buddy of mine who was studying at the Goethe Institut
- traveled to nearby Breisach, a German city on the Rhine River, and crossed the river into the Alsace-Lorraine region of France
- hiked into the Schwarzwald around Freiburg and climbed a lookout tower for an amazing bird's eye view of the city
Zurich
- joined a bus tour of the city and around "Heidi Land" (eastern Switzerland, where the book Heidi was set)
- got my passport stamped in Liechtenstein
- spent 5 hours in a train compartment talking with a grandmotherly German woman in german (I did more listening than talking, and it still made my brain hurt -- but it was successful!)
Vienna/Schloss Wasserburg
- toured the beautiful and enormous Wiener Staatsoper (SRO tickets for the last show of the season were ~$75 for Werther, so I didn't jump for 'em)
- stayed in an honest-to-God castle for a week, being fed and waited on by a maid and cook, lounging around the pool and various sitting rooms, catching up on reading (after 3 weeks of travelling around, living out of a backpack, this felt really good)
- attended the St. Polten city festival, complete with bratwurst (mmm) and brass bands marching through the streets
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