Competitions done. Teams are heading home. We are heading to Salzburg for a short visit to Mozart/Sound of Music land. Today is a transit day, but with extra time in Zagreb between check out and when we get on the train. It's a beautiful Sunday morning for wandering this city.
Finally made it to Tokyo and my first morning walk in what is already a steamy late Summer day. Our first stop is in Asakusa area, not too far from Kaminarimon and the Sumida River, where I took my walk this morning. I share the riverside with a number of other walkers and runner, all of us trying to avoid the massive amounts of sweat we expect as the heat heads towards 85 F/90% humidity.
This is actually a tale of two trips - a lovely ride through some of the most picturesque country in the world and one that most definitely was not. I had been on the Milan to Zurich route the only other time I was in Milan back in the 1980s on a contract for SRI. The second half of our journey, overnight train from Zurich to Zagreb, was an unknown but we had hopes for it.
In which our weary travelers commiserate with the well-off dead while walking to an amazing open-air market.