Look for an old church while you're there, one with two feet thick stone walls. You should find it cool even without AC.

You can tell there's a different way of thinking in Europe, or maybe it's just that they've been doing things that way for so long and their streets have always been that narrow, so they work around it. I miss the buildings. North American ones are shabby in comparison, and design so incredibly limited and unvaried here. Some friends of mine (who've never been to Europe) keep insisting that it's because North Americans want everything to be cheaper upfront, but I don't buy that. It's just an established pattern and less regulation that leaves us with crappier, more uniform products. The more research you do, the more you realize we're getting the lowest common denominator compared to Europe.

Hopefully DR will not need some friendly nuns to sabotage the car of his ruthless pursuers when he tries to escape and come home ...

Meanwhile, let us never miss any opportunity to comment on art and religion, two fundamental elements of human nature which Maria von Trapp famously combined:

Salzburg is of course the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the best-loved composers of all time; surely DR would have had to be blindfolded, or drugged, not to notice one of the town's principal tourist attractions.

Of interest to political scientists and historians is the datum that the Archbishopric of Salzburg survived till relatively recently as an autonomous principality within the empire ruled from Vienna; it must have been one of the longest-surviving ecclesially administered states in Europe, after the Vatican, and Mount Athos in Greece.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.