I had been worrying all weekend about the
car. I'd had a bit of a brain fart, and though I had known and even put it in my notes
to contact the car lease company 4 business days before the due drop off date, as what was outlined repeatedly in the lease agreement, and that was all meant to happen when we were in Garmish, I’d somehow thought that it instead was when I was in
Salzburg and it didn’t click until 6PM last Friday that this was all wrong. Which of course was after business hours and too late to do anything about until 9:00AM Monday
morning. Today. Now.
So I tried calling, and couldn’t get
through.
And tried again, and still couldn’t.
And again, and again, for about 40 minutes,
and now I was getting quite concerned.
What would happen if I couldn’t drop the car off? I was meant to give 4 days’ notice. They’d said so over and over on all the
instructions supplied.
With no luck getting through, I tried
ringing the Barcelona office and got through straight away. I explained my problem, and he said no
problems, but you know you are meant to give 4 days’ notice? Yes, yes sorry :–( I thanked him all grateful, then Michelle
said, I think he thought you wanted to drop the car off in Barcelona? But I said Munich!?! Sure enough, ringing back he thought I was
dropping off in Barcelona. Problem not
solved. I tried Munich again. Tried their head office and tried the
supplied mobile number. I even tried
their Skype ID. No luck. I called the Australian broker, and they said
it shouldn’t be a drama, and they would try on my behalf, and to just assume it
would all be good and to drop the car off. So much worry over a stupid mistake.
So continuing our Sound of Music
experience, we drove out to Mondsee to visit the church used in the movie. Warning. Don’t look too closely at the altar
piece. There are a number of skeletons
from previous bishops just sitting in there.
Lovely.
What an amazing
tour. We were so lucky that our guide was
a trained opera / operetta singer; she had the loveliest voice and was full of
energy, singing the songs at every location we visited. She also had heaps of information about the
history and places in Salzburg, as well as the Sound of Music Movie. This is a very highly recommended way to see
Salzburg, as well as to do visit and get the most out of the obligatory Sound of Music sites.
Not a great deal to really to say of interest today, given it was a commute day. Well at least for
the morning. We farewelled our lovely host in
Garmisch, then spent an uneventful though beuatiful two hours or so driving to Salzburg. The highlight of the trip was stopping at a roadside stop
for breakfast, and they had weisswurst!
