FUßball!!!
#5 FUßball! Yeah!
We were completely amazed that there was any fußball to be found in all of Germany or Austria-BUt as luck would have it, Salzburg was playing. However, it was completly rainy and cold the entire weekend, and we thought we would end up just going back to the room. Wife was sniffly, with her rain gear starting to soak through, but a bus came by the stop and we saw fans with their rally towels and jerseys on. We looked at each other and said, "Let's do it!". So we did. We got student-priced standing tickets (8 euros each), and filled ourselves with wursts, leftover schnitzel from dinner, and Stiegl bier while we wtched the Salzburg Bullen (Red Bulls) win 2-0 against Fenster-Ried! Also very cool--when you order drinks at the game, we couldn't figure out why they charged 2 euros over the proce of the menu. Linh didn't argue, but was very confused. Later on, we got our answer: We eventually noticed that the beer and coffee cups were really substantial. There are cup girls walking around, who will take your cups, and give you back a euro for each one returned. This way they can clean and reuse them, rather than putting them in the landfill. Brilliant! Linh returned her plain coffee cup, but of course I sucked up the $1.43 or so to keep my Stiegl logo cup that you can see in the picture.
Confession: Because we wre feeling under the weather (and the whole point of the trip was for the wife to sing there) we actually skipped out at the 79th minute to catch the bus back to town, since it was clear that Salzburg was going to win, and we were not about to hang around for the rush of 16,000 fútbol fans (and get home two hours later). What a great time though! Safe back in the dorm, we boiled up some tea, and I packed up my suitcase for home.
We were completely amazed that there was any fußball to be found in all of Germany or Austria-BUt as luck would have it, Salzburg was playing. However, it was completly rainy and cold the entire weekend, and we thought we would end up just going back to the room. Wife was sniffly, with her rain gear starting to soak through, but a bus came by the stop and we saw fans with their rally towels and jerseys on. We looked at each other and said, "Let's do it!". So we did. We got student-priced standing tickets (8 euros each), and filled ourselves with wursts, leftover schnitzel from dinner, and Stiegl bier while we wtched the Salzburg Bullen (Red Bulls) win 2-0 against Fenster-Ried! Also very cool--when you order drinks at the game, we couldn't figure out why they charged 2 euros over the proce of the menu. Linh didn't argue, but was very confused. Later on, we got our answer: We eventually noticed that the beer and coffee cups were really substantial. There are cup girls walking around, who will take your cups, and give you back a euro for each one returned. This way they can clean and reuse them, rather than putting them in the landfill. Brilliant! Linh returned her plain coffee cup, but of course I sucked up the $1.43 or so to keep my Stiegl logo cup that you can see in the picture.
Confession: Because we wre feeling under the weather (and the whole point of the trip was for the wife to sing there) we actually skipped out at the 79th minute to catch the bus back to town, since it was clear that Salzburg was going to win, and we were not about to hang around for the rush of 16,000 fútbol fans (and get home two hours later). What a great time though! Safe back in the dorm, we boiled up some tea, and I packed up my suitcase for home.
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