After the conference … I spent a couple of days in Znojmo looking around, the new railway station next to the old one, the castle and the church on opposite sides of the valley, a dam on the river and another look at a museum of transport.

… and then to Salzburg. I had stayed there a few years ago and liked the place, and wanted to see more. A train took me there in a short while, then a walk to my hotel on the Vogelweiderstrasse.

Later I arranged another ‘residence’ as the hotel was crowded. That had been inadvertently double booked and my prospective host arranged an alternative apartment nearby. A lot of