Salzburg

Apart from Dachau, I also daytripped to Neuschwanstein from Munich; you can see those pics here. I didn't go inside it because when I was there they weren't running a tour for like another hour.

I also left my jacket in the bar overnight and when I checked with them and lost property in the morning - no dice. Guess someone pinched it. Even though I only bought it like a week before I left, this didn't annoy me until I realised I'd have to go clothes shopping to replace it, which is a giant pain.

I got into Salzburg yesterday and am staying in another really good hostel (I'm seeing a pattern here. Doing your research and booking in advance pays). It's a town of about 150,000 people right on the edge of Austria. Today I went to see the worlds largest ice cave, where water dripping through limestone creates ice sculptures in a cave inside a mountain. This is located in the Austrian Alps. Photography inside the cave was verboten, but there are some pics from the top of the alps here. There's also a castle in Salzburg, which I never got around to checking out, but that's OK. Plenty of castles to go yet.

Tomorrow morning I'm catching the train to Nuremberg, or Nürnberg as the Germans call it, for the 3 day rock festival Rock Im Park. The lineup is here. I want to catch Korn, The Used, Linkin Park, The White Stripes, Evanescence and Smashing Pumpkins. I'll probably end up seeing more than that since I'll be hanging out with Maria and her friends. I would have seen Machine Head if they didn't clash with Smashing Pumpkins, but don't particularly care. I like that Smashing Pumpkins are closing the festival, since seeing other bands after that would be anticlimactic.