Today we took the train to Salzburg.  We’ll be in Salzburg for a week and then we’ll go back to Prague for a few days.  We left from the huge Prague Train Station and switched trains in Linz.  The entire travel time was 5 1/2 hours.  The trains are beautiful in Europe,  well maintained,  very crowded and very fast.   As we left our hotel for the train station, it began to snow.  You know, those great big floaty snowflakes that Chuck’s been pining for.  And it snowed most of the way to the Austrian border.  Places in Austria had snow already but the day was mostly sunny by the time we got that far.  But it was beautiful in the Czech Republic while it lasted.

It’s hard to get photos from an fast-moving train. First of all the windows are always dirty. And today we added large ice chunks to the windows that were not very attractive when photographed. And then there’s all those trees that weren’t there when you took the photo but shazam! they’re in the photo when you’re done! Here are a few of my best efforts. I especially like the fact that they all look like they’re in black and white and the last ones that show the bleakness of winter.

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