Today was our first opportunity to explore Klagenfurt, Kärnten’s state capital. Our hotel was a couple of miles from Klagenfurt city centre, so we bussed into the city centre and made like tourists. Perhaps the most memorable sight was the Lindworm fountain. Klagenfurt felt quite modern and friendly, with good public transport. Coffees seem to come with the option of pancreas-destroying amounts of sugar. Because I have the memory of a stomped-on slug, and didn’t write any notes until much later, everything else about today is an indelible blank apart from our first of many visits to Burger Boutique. This is in the university area, only 800m from our hotel. My legs appreciated this much – they hurt if I walk more than a couple of hundred metres.


