Dec 26, 2012 - Salzburg

Wednesday, 26 December Our path today takes us back to Austria, with snow in the fields and frozen lakes. We stopped at the picturesque town of Mondsee, where the church scene in the Sound of Music was filmed. We arrived in Salzburg, the birth place of Mozart and the place where Silent Night was first performed. We had a fantastic guide with a very entertaining sense of humour take us around the city. The Christmas Markets were still open (our eleventh). At night we dined at Stiftskellar St Peter, claimed to be the oldest inn in Central...

Dec 20, 2012 - Salzburg Christmas Markets

After a painful bus tour experience to Vienna we decided to drive to Salzburg to experience the christmas markets there. Salzburg is about 280km from ljubljana by highway. We climbed to an elevation of around 1400m and passed a number of tunnels. We had driven part of this highway previously when we went to Obersalzberg to see the Eagles Nest back in September however this time the countryside around us was dusted with snow. We arrived in Salzburg about midday with relatively nice weather about 6 deg and sunny, almost spring weather. After...

Oct 14, 2012 - Destruction's Travels - Nolan's traveling teddy

Hi Nolan and all my friends. Today I travelled by train to Salzburg. We were on a slow train that very gradually climbed the alps, wound around little mountain villages and took tunnels through the mountains. This area is so different from Vienna! Many people speak English in Vienna but only a few do here. The good thing is that many words in English and German are similar so we can guess what the other person is saying. Talk to you later-- Destruction Hi. This is destruction again. The weather in Salzburg has changed. It is cold and...

Aug 27, 2012 - Full day in Salzburg

After a nice buffet breakfast in our hotel we set out at 8:15 to find a post office so we could finally mail our box! Success! Back to the hotel to drop off the day pack we'd used to carry the box, tape and scissors. At 9:00 we started our long day of walking and enjoying Salzburg. (We found a Tourist Info Center to buy a day's city pass each for entrance to any museums open today and for all forms of transportation. We used it several times for museums, an elevator, a funicular and at the end of the day, for concert tickets.) Our lunch was...

Aug 26, 2012 - Train to Salzburg, Austria

Had our last riverboat breakfast with 2 couples we've enjoyed this cruise. Our taxi came at 8:15 to take us to the Budapest Keleti train station. When we got onto the train to find our reserved seats we found a couple sitting there. The man refused to move saying his tour guide had told them they could sit anywhere in the car they wanted. Didn't phase him when we told him we had paid extra for those seats. He became very aggressive and only moved when his tour guide told him the seats were ours. We have no idea why he fought so vigorously...

Aug 6, 2012 - Salzburg

SALZBURG: In order to reach Salzburg, Austria from Lucca, Italy we had to take a train back to Venice and then catch a bus to Vallach, Austria where we overnighted and then took another train to Salzburg the next morning. Vallach is a pretty Austrian town which was celebrating an anniversary and the town was a-buzzing with activity and people. Unfortunately, we were too busy trying to find a place to sleep so could not join the fun. Nice to feel the energy though! After wandering the streets of Vallach carrying our backpacks for quite some...

Jul 8, 2012 - Salzburg 2 - Euro Mountain Project

This day was relentless..after having virtually no sleep we went out to finish seeing some sites from the sound of music: what a fail this turned out to be. When we finally struggled out into public at 1pm we headed to Untersbergbahn moutain and rode the gondala up to the top. Even though this was the one thing we ended up doing today, wow it was maybe the highlight of the trip for me; especially given the context of sleep we had. The mountain was 2km up but we kept hiking past the clouds a 100m. We saw mountain goat, permafrost and...

Jul 7, 2012 - Salzburg 1 - Redbull Central

Got into the picture perfect Salzburg today after another great train ride. Since we only had 2 days we jam packed our time with walking. First we visited the old town, Mozart's birthplace, and a variety of the baroque churches (the whole city has this specific style). Then we went up a massive funicular to Hohensalzburg Castle which had an epic view of the old city and surroundigs. It was a busy day...luckily we were in the city home to red bulk headquarters, yesssss. After having a few of those we were obviously re-energized and headed...

Apr 20, 2012 - Salzburg

@@@@@@@ I will write about our experiences in Salzburg soon, but for some general information, here are some exerts from the Lonely Planet – Central Europe chapter on Austria: BACKGROUND The joke ‘If it’s baroque, don’t fix it’ is a perfect maxim for Salzburg; the tranquil Old Town burrowed below steep hills looks much as it did when Mozart lived here 250 years ago. Second only to Vienna in numbers of visitors, this compact city is centered on a tight grouping of narrow, cobbled streets overshadowed by ornate 17th-century buildings, which...

Mar 29, 2012 - Salzburg

It was necessary to catch a coach from Venice Maestro to Villach in order to reconnect with the train to Salzburg. As we drove through the countryside we encountered many tunnels through the Alps and the engineering works are amazing. The views of the snow covered mountains still enthralled me and I thoroughly enjoyed the trip. As we neared Salzburg the weather became cooler and with much regret I had to resurrect my winter jacket. Just as well I did as I had a reasonable walk to the hotel which I managed to find despite the tourist info...

Mar 27, 2012 - Welcome to Austria

For the 2nd morning in a row we had the kids up at the crack of dawn. We are promising them a sleep-in tomorrow. Next to Paris, Salzburg ( and Innsbruck) are close 2nds. The architecture / buildings are beautiful. There are many narrow cobbled streets and lane ways, side walk cafe's, lakes and rivers.....all at the foot of snow capped mountains. Pretty as a picture / postcard! Being in Europe in early spring this time, we notice that the charming street cafe's all offer blankets over the chairs to keep their patrons warm. The Euro is good...

Mar 27, 2012 - Salzburg - Sound of music tour ( blogged by Laura)

I woke up this morning with the thought in my head being - OMG am I dreaming am I really going on The Sound of Music Tour?? No I wasn't. Today the Dooley family was off to Salzburg. At 6.00 we were out of the hotel up and moving ready to rock and roll. This day was a big one. 2 longish trains and a 4 hour tour!! Exhausting. The day had began; we went down to where the staff had prepared a lovely breaky for us to have before we left Munich. Our train departs from the station at 6.39 so we were up nice an early ready for a big day. As we...