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By Leah1
August 26th 2008

Musical Salzburg

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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 - [View Full Entry]

By Rad and Kat
August 25th 2008

The sound of music

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The Kiwi couple who put us to shame!
Brian & Andrea were riding around europe

Yes, there was only one reason we visited Salzburg, not Mozart the most famous composer of our time, but the Sound of Music!! The Von Trapp family rules when it comes to Kathryn. A whole glorious day trapped in a bus with a bunch of nutters, one a very camp 8 year old boy who skipped and sang his little heart out, right to the end. The tour guide, dressed in her traditional outfit, tried her very best to get the whole bus singing along. Yes it was a wonderful day for some. I kind of had a small victory the [View Full Entry]

By Leah Nicole
August 24th 2008

storybook salzburg

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do re mi
mirabell gardens

salzburg goes something like this... friday morning catrina and i were both kind of motivated. we like to call it our post budapest depression. we just really missed our hostel, as the one here is much more generic and actually has rules. just feels kind of stuffy. and everything just seems so expensive here. so the first thing we did was go to the train station and book our ride to brindisi, in the south of italy, to then catch the ferry to greece. we leave this morning in fact! so after we did that, we headed to old town and [View Full Entry]

By Cpheen
August 24th 2008

Adrenaline rush in Salzburg

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As Nadine pointed out, after a 2 week beak of writing I owe it to you guys who are actually keeping up with me to update a bit more. This is also perfect timing to write as this afternoon we are boarding a train to Brindisi and then taking the ferry to Corfu. the whole journey is going to last over 36 hours but we are both soo excited to get to greece and just stay there for the next 2 weeks!!! Salzburg has had some ups and downs. As anyone who read my last post regarding Budapest can probably tell, [View Full Entry]

By Leah Nicole
August 22nd 2008

the perfect ending

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lovely water
siofok

arrived in salzburg last evening and have yet to explore. so i will conclude my hungary experience. monday catrina and i went to siofok, a beach town on lake balaton. very touristy, it looked like we walked into the film set of a very stereotypical spring break. we didn´t mind. we figured a relaxing day on the beach could prep us for greece! before settling down though, we did take a sailboat tour of the lake. such a beautiful colour the water is...very greenish turquoise. so peaceful. then we found some lounge chairs, parked ourselves, then ordered a drink. why not? [View Full Entry]

By AlexandraFrick
August 17th 2008

Gruppenfahrkarte (to Salzburg)

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Vienna 299
exhibit at the Belvedere

Friday, 8/15 After going out Thursday night, I came home and tried to sleep for the last portion of the night that I had left. For some reason, I was too anxious to sleep and felt like I was awake the whole night. I woke up early to make sure everything was packed for my trip. We had to meet at the Belvedere for another Dr. O tour at 10am. We took the streetcar over to the museum, and got our tickets and headed into the first exhibit. The first room we spent some time in was a display of a [View Full Entry]

By bangers
August 17th 2008

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

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Salzburg

A train ride without incident? What? Come on, what's going on? Your kiding arn't ya? No, no joke we got on the train. Sat down, rode to Salzburg and got off. Great. Now we just need to get bus number one to some stop and walk a bit to the hostel. The bus was easy enough to find. It was sitting in the depot waiting to leave. We walked up to the bus driver, one pack on our back and one on our stomach, fully loaded and ready to get to a place we could call home. "Can we get two [View Full Entry]

By DanMons
August 14th 2008

13th Aug - Salzburg

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Hellbrunn
The table in the middle - that sprays the water.

Today we packed up home, again, and decided to have a look through Innsbruck, since we were there anyway. Yip...well after the massive queue to get anywhere near the city centre we managed to make it, only to find a whole lot of boring concrete buildings, and parking buildings full, so we decided it wasn’t worth stopping for and carried on to Salzburg. We got to Salzburg just after lunch and set up camp. The office is closed during lunch (a semi-common thing around here it seems), so we had some lunch and headed into town. Austrian’s don’t seem to like [View Full Entry]

By DanMons
August 14th 2008

14th Aug - St Gilgen

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Sound of Music Church
where the Baron married Maria

Hello again from the camping ground Wolfgangsee in Lindendstrand, St Gilgen. This is our best camping ground yet - free HOT showers, cheap, heaps of room, sunny weather, and a lake to swim in right by the camping ground - all found by accident! We left Salzburg this morning and ending up in Mondsee. Here we got to see more exciting Sound of Music filming locations. We went to the Mondsee Cathedral where the wedding scene between Maria and the Baron was filmed in the movie. The Cathedral was very impressive inside with lots of statues and paintings and gold coloured [View Full Entry]

By Chris and Mary Anne
August 8th 2008

Austria-Alps

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Border between Italy and Austria

Wow!! What a beautiful country! We spent our longest time in one campsite in Fusch. Our surroundings were amazing. We hiked everyday and did one overnight hike. Hiking is different in Austria-it is acceptable to use cable cars, mountains are very steep-straight up and straight down usually 1000m with few countour paths! When we hiked overnight we stayed in a guest house(Gliewitzerhutte) at 2100m above sea level. We made friends with lovely Austrian couple - Barbara and Matthew. Matthew grew up in the area and told us a lot about the hiking in the region. The one thing we didn't k [View Full Entry]

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