Europe 2019 - Day 50 (Part 4)

25 June 2019, Tuesday

Our final destination here in Salzburg was the Schlosspark with the Hellbrunn Castle or Palace. This place was created in the 1600’s as a residential villa much like Mirabell Palace. Hellbrunn has a lively yellow rendering and its front façade is fully symmetrical. We walked around the gardens which was quite pretty with many fountains (there was one with the statue of Neptune) and lakes (one with Siberian and white sturgeon fish in it). However, the main attraction was apparently the trick fountains but we didn’t get to experience that due to lack of time. 

Then, before heading back to the bus station, we stopped for food and a beer. I had currywurstand the beer was a seasonal draft beer known as Original Hofbrau from Salzburg. I’m actually not feeling very hungry today. Yesterday dinner was late and the food didn’t digest properly and as usual this would trigger reflux and all that nonsense 🙄. 

By the way, I’m really sick and tired of bread and sausages right now. No more for the foreseeable future. 

We arrived back in Munich at about 8.15 p.m. and then we went to the restaurant where our hostess was working as a waitress. Here we had some beers, and our hostess paid for them! How sweet. Then time to go home. My friend wanted to buy some groceries from Europe to take back to Malaysia, and initially she told me she would head out early the next morning to the supermarket. I told her I’d sleep in for a change. Supermarkets are really not my thing, but it’s like the twilight zone with my friend - once she enters, it is a thousand years before she exits 🙄.

However on the way home she told me there is a supermarket still open so for the last time I went to a supermarket in Europe. We bought 2 bottles of wine (one red and one white) as a gesture of gratitude for all her help. For breakfast tomorrow I bought instant noodles. No more bread. No more sausages. Enough is enough. 

Then, finally, home. I’ve managed to lose some weight while travelling but unfortunately not as much as I wanted to. So, when I return I vow to be slim. No excuses. But of course, after all the delicious Malaysian food which I have craved for these past 50 days 😁.