http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Austria , Salzburg State , Salzburg en-us Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:19:36 BST Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:19:36 BST The train departed Augsburg Hauptbanhof on time the expected German efficiency. We were able to find a nice inner cabin with six seats to ourselves. I actually spread my stuff around to discourage others from stepping in. With that much room around I turned on my computer and showed some of our travel pictures to Po and Anne. I also showed them my Pebble Beach pictures. That is the beauty of di http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-333133.html Hi all....sorry have been slow with blogs...whole heap coming in the next weekmitch and dorina http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-330718.html Yesterday we headed off to Austria for the day since it was just an hour and a half train ride from Munich. The country from what we saw of it on the train is quite beautiful and very much like Switzerland. We landed in Salzburg around 10AM and walked around the city for a few hours. The city is the hometown of Mozart so everything is around his life. There were gardens where he developed som http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-328434.html Just wanted to let you all know I added a lot more photos to the last one http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-326434.html This past weekend Emily Josh Alissa Chris and I traveled to Salzburg Austria. Not kidding I could live here. It's a magical place. I know that sounds ridiculous but wait until I post pictures. It's true. First of all we stayed at St. Sebastian's which was wonderful except that we were awoken by the bells each morning at 6am. Mozart's wife and parents are buried in the cemetery behind http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-324612.html We left again this morning at 800 a.m. and took a bus to the Salzkammergut the Austrian lakes district to our east. The weather was still in the early 80rsquos and was perfect for travelling. I saw some of the most beautiful places in Europe so far on this day most likely because of the weather. We arrived early in St. Wolfgang a small Austrian town along one of the many lakes. The water http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-324523.html A train ride without incident What Come on what's going on Your kiding arn't yaNo 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-322319.html Today our group went to a town called Hallein which is about 30 min south of Salzburg See point 5 on world map. This was a typical Austrian Town and we spent an hour or so roaming about town and looking at all the shops there. Later was one of the highlights of the days trips and that was the salt mines. These mines are what made Salzburg extremely wealthy. We all wore these white jumpsuits http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-321347.html I never could have guessed how amazing Salzburg would be. Just from the short bus ride from the airport to our center I saw so much the huge mountains that surround the city the people and the cleanliness of the city itself. The center Point 4 on the map is phenomenal it's huge I have posted pictures of where we are staying which is just a 15 min walk from the old city which is the h http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-320882.html 237Arrived in Salzburg at 12.30pm today. As soon as I walked in I bumped into 2 people I knew a guy from Brugge and a girl I met in Berlin. This keeps happening all the time I think I wont see these people again and then randomly down the track we catch up in another country it is so much fun. I walked around the Old town which is very quaint and pretty. I did a little shopping and went into the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-316514.html 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 str http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-316392.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-316026.html 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 weeksS http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-315538.html 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 th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-315530.html 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 didnt mind. we figured a relaxing day on the beach could prep us for greece before settling down though we did take a sailboat tour http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-314893.html Friday 815After 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 t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-313635.html 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 accidentWe 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-312163.html 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 wasnrsquot worth stopping for and carried on to Salzburg. We got to Salzburg just after lunch and http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-312161.html Mozart truly had it made minus dying from an std in his 30's...Salzburg is a rad city and my favorite thus far. My initial intrigue with the narrow streets of Europe has worn off and I feel a bit as if I had come to America and taken pictures of the freeways. The streets really are narrow I think we're averaging two ice cream cones a day Sam and I in preparation for latter half of the tri http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-311679.html Yesterday was the single most incredible day of our trip yet and possibly the most incredible day Chelsea and I have ever shared together. The day started like any other day in Munich with Starbucks coffee and breakfast bagels. We boarded our train to Salzburg Austria thatrsquos right Austria NOT part of our original agenda at 1030am. Our decision to go to Austria came about because so m http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-309763.html Day trip to Salzburg Austria The plan for the day was to take an early train from Munich to Salzburg tour Salzburg for two hours and then catch a noon bus for an afternoon tour of Hitler's Eagle's Nest in nearby Berchtesgaden. However our early ICE train was canceled so we had to take a later slower train. Arriving late in Salzburg we now had just over an hour but the train station is fi http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-309693.html So where did I leave off Ah yes Dave and I were at the start of our very long journey from Plitvice to Salzburg. The journey began at about 10 AM where you would find Dave and I sitting on the side of the road in a little hut which apparently was bus stop. We were informed which bus to take were given an hour and a half window when the bus MIGHT arrive and were instructed to simply flag the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-309053.html The hills are alive with the sound of music http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-306721.html We arrived in Austria on Sunday after 10 hours of driving The site is awesome surrounded by huge mountains and right next to the River Saalach which I've not had the nerve to kayak in yet It has the poshest wash room complex that we have ever seen.......better than most hotelsThis week we have been moutain biking down mountains white water rafting and canyoning. The rafting was a little ta http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-306719.html I don't remember where I last left off but I will start with a significant not fun event The night train Now the train station in Zurich was not one I'd like to visit again at 1030 at night. Apparently that is where the kids that like to rebel against their parents hang out. However Switzerland is such a laid back country and it seems like the kids don't have many legal rules as far as dri http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-306584.html Today Sherrie and I went on separate tours. During her time here at Christmas she went on the Sound of Music tour. Today she was very excited to go and see the Ice Caves. She took the train to Werfen then got on a bus walked 20 minutes uphill to a gondola and finished with another 20 minute walk uphill to the caves. The views in the caves were amazing. Unfortunately she was not allowed t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-306049.html Yesterday we sadly left the mountains. We decided to spend a night in Zurich to shorten our trip today to Salzburg. Sherrie had been to Zurich before and I was excited to go. We arrived in the afternoon and checked into a hotel. The backpackers we had been sent to was full so we found a reasonably priced hotel around the corner. It was a cute little room with two twin beds and a great view o http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-305682.html We have so much to tell you but unfortunately it will have to wait because I am typing from the front desk of our Austria stay. That is the only Internet available here right now. The first night the hotel did not have Internet and we got back to the hotel to late to walk to the Internet cafe. The next night we camped in a Medieval village and of course....no Internet. Tonight the hotel does http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-304106.html HelloAnd so now I'm at the end of the third day of my trip. I'll give a little outline of where I've been so far.Day 1BratislavaOn Monday I headed out from Luton airport to the capital of Slovakia Bratislava. Although the country itself is one of the poorest in Europe the 17th poorest EU country the capital isn't lacking money. I thought perhaps this was thanks to to the tourism and it's t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-303646.html