This hotel is a great place to stay and, thankfully, the nocturnal neighbours have left, so we got a good night’s sleep.

For our second day in Salzburg we went for the heights: first the modern art gallery on the Monchburg and then the fortress on the Festunburg. Both were reached by cliff lift, and both gave great views over the town. But it rained most of the day, so the pictures are not great.

The highlights of the modern art were Martha Roster’s photomontage about war (profound) and Simone Forti’s dance and movement (wacky). The highlight of the castle was probably the Bull of Salzburg – an enormous mechanical organ (no keyboard) that was used as an alarm clock for Salzburg!

Back to cycling tomorrow. The last leg from Salzburg to Zurich now looks a bit ambitious, so we are planning a couple of train rides to bypass some harder bits. A decision reinforced by the forecast for yet more rain ahead. Looking forward to it!

Helen’s track of the day:
Movin’ by Gregory Porter.
One of the best parts of the day for me was drinking coffee in the posh bar overlooking the city from the Modern Art Museum. The soundtrack was good jazz music, advertising the forthcoming jazz festival, so I have chosen a new jazz track and even if the sentiment doesn’t quite fit, the title does.

This was in preference to the theme tune from Breaking Bad, a wonderful last series doing so well at the Emmys yesterday, good news, but not quite the ambience I am after here.