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Published: June 22nd 2010
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Jean and Cope on a rainy but wonderful day in the garden. Good Morning Blog Readers!
This week's adventure takes us to Salzburg, Austria and into Germany. We left Venice about noon in a pouring thunderstorm. Cope, me, the bags, everything, like someone dropped a bucket of water on us ;-) Boy did we wish we had rain covers for our bags. But... we found where the bus for Villach, Austria stops (no signs, you just have to ask and guess ;-) at least the bus was warm and we had a 3 hour trip to let things dry out. Rained all the way to Villach, where we scrambled out of the bus to the train station across the street.
When we first got on the train I thought we were in the wrong car as it looked like a freight car with no seats, but it turned out that was only half the car and the other half was first class, leather seats, pretty nice. Turned out that about 1/2 way to Salzburg we picked up about 20 guys with their racing bikes and they went into the other half of the car with their bikes.
When we arrived in Salzburg, it was about 5pm, we called Gabi Frost, the
Salzburg
From the river to the mountain top landlord for the apartment we were going to rent and she told us to get a taxi to the apartment (about 10 minutes away) and she's meet us.
What a nice surprise! Gabi and the apartment are both wonderful!! The location is great and the apartment (although located in a building from the 1400's) is totally modern and very comfortable.
If you even have a glimmer that you might one day come to Salzburg you should keep the following web address. It is a youtube of the apartment...enjoy.
In our three day here we have toured the city by bus, walked the old town and our neighborhood, had wonderful pastries and lunch out, shopped at a local grocery store (since we only have about 10 German words between us, it was pretty challenging
Good thing that packages have pictures on them ;-)
We found a fountain where horses were washed and watered that was built by Prince Leopold. A horse bath ;-) This fountain at the foot of a cliff appears in The Sound of Music. It is built so that horses can just walk right in and is decorated with paintings of the Horse Washing Fountain
Ah to have such a beautiful bathtub! ;-) breeds most prominent in the Prince's stables.
We understand that there's a puzzle in the plaque. It says "Leopold the Prince Built Me" but with capital letters out of place. If you take the capitals as roman numerals and add them up, it gives you the year it was built.
We also took a trip to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (just over the border into Germany) which was built for his 50th birthday. You reach it by bus, then a second bus with a specially built engine for steep hill climbs, then a tunnel 1000' long, and finally an elevator that takes you up the last 400 feet to his retreat. Eagle's Nest is high in the Bavarian Alps at about 6000 feet. It sits on an outcropping with views for miles in all directions. There is a fabulous fireplace of Italian marble that was given to Hitler as a gift from Mussolini in 1938. We did see Eagle's Nest but not the views, it was cold and had snowed the day before so there was slush all around and FOG. Fog everywhere ;-) I'm sure those views are spectacular Maybe next time.
Well, it's time to Eagle's Nest
A picture of a picture...so you can see it. Just toooo much fog on the real day. make a little dinner, so Auf Wiedersehen ;-)
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Linda
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Clean horses
So really, all you'd have to do is get your horse to Salzburg, and the wash is free?