Another day in Wasserburg

Since yesterday was a long biking day (by our standards, anyway) and the next segment is another long one, we did a rest day in Wasserburg today.

A quick note on Wasserburg - it got rich in the 1400's, mainly from the salt trade (from the town of Hall, next to Innsbruck, Hall is an old word for salt). Wasserburg is on a peninsula jutting out into the river Inn, and there's only one (very busy) bridge to it.

In the morning, we walked around the city - there's a sculpture walk that goes along the river. We also went up to the hill on the other side of the river , where there's a nice view of the city.

But the main activity planned today was a nearby (well, 30 minutes by bus) adventure park that has all kinds of rope courses and things like that.

However, it didn't work out. We got to the right bus stop way ahead of time, and knew the bus number, etc.  However, there was at one point a huge clot of busses coming through. Some of them had the number on the front, some didn't. I thought the ones without the number on front were all school buses, but they weren't - one of them was our bus, the 7702, which was stopped far away from the actual stop. As it was passing, we saw that it was our bus, and tried flagging it down, but it just drove on by.

So, Plan A was a bust. Luckily, Plan B was pretty good. Swimming pools are usually really nice in Austria and Germany, and the local one is no exception - it's amazing. It's called Badria (a play on words, from "baden" - swimming - and "Adria" - the famous coast of Italy with amazing beaches). It was for some reason almost empty - in complete contrast to the pool at Kufstein.

There were 6 slides, and all kind of play equipment in the pool - including a set of connected floats that kids tried to run across, usually without success. Peter made it across a few times, and there were groups of kids that hung out there, playing on it, for hours at a time.

 Then we walked back to our hotel and rested up for a while before dinner, which was at a Vietnamese place - the first one I've seen with non-Vietnamese owners. The food was good, the service was bad - in contrast to yesterday, wen we went to an Indian restaurant for dinner - the food was mediocre, but the service was good.

I don't think I've gotten many Wasserburg pictures in here yet. These covered walkways like in the photo below are a prominent feature of the city.