Stress level sky rockets!

We had spent a wonderful day driving the back roads of Germany and Austria. However, once we approached Salzburg, once again we were in TRAFFIC! Freeway traffic feeding into small old European roads and directions make for stress and it rose significantly in the car. Yes, the pressure was on to find our hotel, but we also had cars whizzing around us because of our caution. The Tom Tom was helping, and we located the hotel, but could not find where to park. We made another attempt, but again could not find a place to pull over, even at the front door. What to do, what to do . . . Since the hotel was on a one way street we had to circle around to make another approach which took about 15 minutes. I finally called the hotel and they said to pull up on the sidewalk! Why didn’t we think of that on our first attempt?