Time is going way too fast. Two days have passed soo quickly in Salzburg. Its Sunday evening and my feet are killing me, we have walked a hell of a lot. Currently being a very diligient blogger as the place we are staying at has free internet for half an hour.
Saturday
A beautiful sunny day! Another one! I#ve finally experience some Summer weather here in Europe. It has seemed to rain alot for me otherwise. Not to say that it has never been warm or sunny. Just that there are only Sunny patches and then clouds.
So today we have seen plenty and walked far and wide. We headed down to the altstadt this mornin, just a short walk along the river from our hotel. We then visited the information centre and got these 'Salzburg Cards' which you can buy for 24 48 or 72 hours and they give you free transport and entry into pretty much every attraction around.
So in an effort to get everything out of our card we went to the closest one of these free attractions- the Salzburg museum. It was right across the road and we were definitely eager. The museum had quite a bit on historical figures and the history of Salzburg. Quite interesting to know the background of where we were but I think after the giant Residenz museum in Munich we were over the Museum quickly.
We went for a strool past the cathedral and the main squares. We stopped and grabbed some ice-cream cause we were a bit peckish at that stage. There was a giant chess board at this square so we had a quite a good time watching people play while we tucked into our Eis. We then caught the cable car up to the Festung Hohersalzburg which is a giant fotress up on a hill above the town. It had the most amazing views of the city. So after a walk around there for an hour or two we headed back down the hill to have some lunch and then we went back up the hill abit to visit the Nonnberg Abbey which is where Maria Von Trapp (the real one) was a nun. They shot some scenes from the movie there too.
We then headed back to our accomodation, stopping at the Birthhouse of Mozart (a very strange museum but kind of inspiring at the same time) before we were going to head out to the Augustine Brewery which was the hostels activity for the night. We seemed to be the only people that turned up for that though so we went for a stroll around town before deciding to give up and head back to our accomodation.
Sunday
Its another hot sunny day! I could definitely get used to this.
Today we took a bus a little way out of the city and headed to the Untersberg. WE caught a cable-car up the top of the summit. Another absolutely stunning view, this time much more higher up than yesterday's fotress.
So we went for a bit of a stroll around the mountain (no I did not burst into the Hills are Alive, but I was slightly tempted) We had a lovely lunch on the mountain. I did end up being very Aussie and did say 'Hows the serenity a few times'. There really was soo much serenity.
We then went and checked out Hellbrunn castleß which was owned bz a rather kooky emperor. He had trick fountains all around his gardens which sprayed his unsuspecting guest with water. The tour we did around there was a good laugh and it was perfect because it was pretty hot by the time we got there. The rest of the grounds were really pretty. I'd almost get into gardening (or be very rich and have someone do it for me). We even stumbled across the gazebo from the Sound of Music. Unfortunatley you can't get inside. So no reinactements. Erin did it around the outside. We've seen quite alot from Sound of Music now. Tomorrow we make it really official cause we are hiring bikes from our accomodation and are seeing the Von Trapp house and the Mirabell gardens. Im just excited to get back on a bike.
Im very excited to go to Italy in a few days too. It seems crazy to me that soon I'll finally get to go to the place where the Italian language is spoken. A language Ive been learning now for over 5 years. Everyone there will speak Italian. Awesome.
