2025 OSECHI for Two

OSECHI is a traditional New Year's meal, originally meant to last the first three days of the New Year.
OSECHI is a traditional New Year's meal, originally meant to last the first three days of the New Year.
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.
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.