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The Netherlands 2012: Part 2

Part 1: North Holland

According to my salvaged fb albums, we went to Vienna next?? I thought it was later in the trip, but I don’t remember the order of anything specific. My friend Leslie had been at a summer piano camp in Salzburg, so we got a really good deal on train tickets to Salzburg through the Treinreiswinkel (which no longer exists and it’s really sad because they were super awesome), and then I found out that I had miscommunicated and she was actually in Vienna. So Tharash went and got train tickets for Vienna which was twice as expensive (being last-minute) and I felt guilty about it for years (that was a good chunk of change for us poor uni students, and he could have put that towards a new PC at some point). He, of course, forgot about it until I mentioned starting to get over it a few years ago. All in the past now.

Most of the pictures here are from Tharash, a turnabout from the usual picture ratio.

My first time seeing the Alps. We had taken a sleeping car on the way down and in second class that meant sleeping in a room for 6 people. I think there were at least four, including us. It felt a little weird.

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