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as usual, posting my trip pictures has been delayed. my original plan was just to post the pictures of salzburg and its environs, but even that's too much for my schedule. so, we're going to start with just two things in or near salzburg: the zoo, and the science and technology museum, das Haus der Natur. that's the best name for a science museum i've ever heard.

as my readers may recall, soon after we arrived in salzburg, we sallied forth to get our bearings. one of the things i was looking for was the city information stand, since that's where we'd buy our city cards. city cards are these wonderful things that provide free or low cost entry to all sorts of attractions, as well as the city's mass transit system. every major european city we've been to has them, but i've never seen them in the US. in any event, we didn't find the information stand, because as it turns out, we didn't go quite far enough into the old city.

we did, however, find it the next morning. like many places tourists congregate, it had a display of brochures for local businesses, cultural venues, and the like. i found this leaflet:



even my rusty german was enough to read it:

an evening with the king
welcome to the night zoo!

every friday and saturday in august

well, that was that day and the next! so we now had a plan; actually, more of a plan, since there were a number of sights to see on the same set of bus lines, and we were already thinking of going to one of them.

( Nachtzoo und Haus der Natur )