Salzburg - last day. Let's play

Still had a few more hours on the Salzburg card, so we had a look at the Toy museum. It's pretty good, even if it is aimed more at kids than big kids. At first it seemed a bit disappointing since there were three rooms, but then there were another 2 floors that we almost missed. It's very interactive. There's a marble run and a room for constriuction toys. Upstairs are a bunch of more static exhibits, including the He-Man exhibit, which was there to mock us for being old enough to remember. Apparently the slot car racing runs from 3pm to 4pm, but we didn't wait around for that. The top floor has a lot of model railway stuff. Press button to make train go. Quite a nice layout.

After that we went to the science and natural history museum. Lots of hands on stuff. These things are fun, but I do wonder if kids actually learn anything from them. Flickums braved the reptile house, fearing they may have sneaked some spiders in there but it was mostly snakes and actual reptiles.

Finished the day by heading to the palce that does vintage photos. I was the King of Austria, and flickums was my lady. I was possibly a bit too smiley for a serious royal, but I'm a naturally smiley person.( Olde worlde photoe undere ye cut )

So, time up, we strolled back to the hotel, got a taxi to the airport, and took turns being stressed out an anxious. Me because Salzburg airport was small and crowded; flickums because of scare-o-planes. Still, we found a nice place to sit and at least we had spare space on the plane.

Plane took off. Plane landed. Am only slightly bruised by flick grabbing me.

Flattery battery will get you nowhere.

My car made a "hrum-phumb-brr" noise and completely failed to burst into life. Seems that a week of not being driven drained the battery (which seems odd but maybe I left something on)

So I wandered to the hardware store to see if I could buy a charger. He didn't have one. I wandered to the other hardware store to see if I could buy a charger. She did have one. Then all I needed to do was remove my battery. The cables were easy enough to remove. Sadly, there was a tiny little bolt stuck by the side of the battery holding it on. Not enough room to turn a spanner. The local shops don't sell a good range of tools. Just basic cheapies. Still, I did get a selection of spanners. Some the right size (10mm rather than the nearest imperial equivalent) None of them had enough wiggle room.

Reconnected the battery. Set off the alarm. Ooops.

Gave up called the AA. Don't have home start. Maybe I should change my address back to my parents' place.

Asked some helpful Polish neighbours to give me a push start. It didn't work. I ended up in a worse position because I was stuck in a parking bay that I had to get out of before tomorrow morning.

Eventually managed to get the battery out. Blody hell, those things are heavy! What are they made from? Oh yeah... Lead! Lugged it home and plugged it into my charger.

Got bored waiting after a couple of hours. Lugged it back to my car, wired it up. It's alive!!!

I cackled a mad scientist laugh, as I drove Thunderbird around a little to make sure the battery got a little more of a charge.

Tomorrow, I think I need to buy a socket set.