Musical Salzburg

Salzburg is a quaint city set on a river with heaps of churches and lovely cobbled shopping streets all kept in the old style with no modern signage (makes a nice change). It has great atmosphere with many buskers lining the streets and squares. Salzburg seems to be the capital of music, being the home of Mozart and the setting for many Sound of Music scenes. The Mirabell Gardens are lovely to stroll through and even better when you pretend you’re characters from Sound of Music! We were absolute tourists when we joined up for the Sound of Music tour - it was embarrassingly cheesy with Captain Cheese our tour guide but it seemed like a good idea at the time! Well actually it did mean seeing awesome Austrian scenery from high up in the hills and we tasted the best apple strudel. The cliffs are very steep all around you and the lakes are lovely. It took us to the location of many scenes from the movie. Agh childhood memories! The whole time in Salzburg I had the songs from the movie going around and around in my head and now I want to see the stage show in London again. Austria would be fabulous to see in winter; the small towns we drove through and stopped at had a very ski resort feel with lots of chalets, sloped roofs etc, made me want to go skiing.

We went on a day excursion to some Ice Caves out of Salzburg and way high into the cliff (went on the steepest cable car in Europe, bloody scary when it swayed!) The Ice Caves were pretty cool with massive stalagmites and stalactites, some that looked like animals. Best part of the day trip though was the views from the top of the cliff at the entrance to the cave.

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