Made a mistake last night and forget to make sure that the hotel took credit cards. What we like to do is use cards for the hotels and big dinners, and save our travellers checks for entrance fees and snacks. We discovered our mistake the night before at the restaurant. Ended up costing us $162 due to the bad exchange rate used by the hotel for our travellers checks in us dollars.

Went to Innsbruck to the Amex office to exchange money at a decent rate and stopped at a grocery store for picnic supplies. For less than $9, bought a loaf of bread, a package of cheese, a jar of spargel pickles, two small bottles of wine, and a large bottle of mineral water.

Today was mostly spent on the road, but we stopped at Chiemsee (King Ludwig's other castle) which was just as touristy as Neuschwanstein.

In Salzberg, we went to Hellbrunn, a 17th century pleasure palace with Squirting water everywhere. We took the tour with the Sadistic tour guide who was determined that no one escaped dry.

Tried to find a hotel the city and realize that Salzberg is big enough that parking dowtown is a premium. Rather than parking in a garage over night, we drove just out of the city and found the Pension Prahauser for 650As, the most reasonable price for a room as yet.

Ate in the old town at Mohren. Two menus--one in German, one in all the other languages (Fuglish, French, Italian). It never seems that these two match up. I messed up and got the special Mohrentoast, which did not mention the thinly sliced pork between the toast and the scallops, mushrooms that were mentioned on the line. I guess that is what made it special. We had the house white wine, mixed salads and dessert, Chocolate cake for Jill and apple Streudel for me.