Blogs from Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, Europe - page 39

Our day with the family in Salzburg was great and full of food. We started with breakfast on the terrace of the fluffy cats, admiring the beautiful countryside all around with the green, green fields that stretched on forever and the tree covered hills that headed skyward. There were even a couple of highland cows to entertain us. We met up with the rest of the relatives and headed to a hillside inn just out of Elsbethen for lunch. It had wonderful views over the city and surrounding areas, but not so wonderful singers of folk music. Thankfully the food was fantastic and we tried more of the local grub: blutwurst, sauerkraut, cheeseypasta stuff, strudel, topfenstrudel, straum... it just kept coming. Spent the afternoon exploring the Festung, the Fortress above Salzburg and getting a brief history ... read more

From Pope to convent. We arrived to Salzburg, Austria for a few days of R&R as there was not a whole lot to do here but enjoy the unbelievable picture-postcard scenery. Salzburg lies in a valley. Mountains perched all around. Pastures in the distance. It is separated into New and Old town--Old with the appearance from Mozart's time. With our small, barely furnished room, and the churchbells ringing throughout the night, we feel like we are staying in a convent. Actually, it used to be a hospital. Our window opens out to a narrow cobblestone lane lined with shops and cafes. One of the main attractions is the Hohensalzburg Fortress. Used as the fortress for the archbishop rulers since 1077, it lies on the mountain above the city and towers above all. It was perhaps the ... read more

Geo: 48.0765, 12.9132Crappy breakfast. Pate and cheese were not good. Ate with the Italian lady and her daughter (the one that helped me with laundry last night). Nice lady, from Torino. Off to Salzburg. Maribell Gardens ... beautiful. Stunning sculptures. Old-town - lively, with a fruit market. Had a burenwurst ... tasty! Kollegiekirche - interesting Baroque style. Mozart's birthplace - boring, but doing something Mozart related is obligatory here. Had a chocolate "Mozart Ball". Unlike the balls that Chef from "South Park" makes, they were not salty chocolate balls. Rather, they were sickly sweet (marzipan?). Continued walking and saw the largest Baroque fountain in the world. Cool. Reminded me of the Bartholdi fountain in Washington, DC, though both are quite different. Went to the "Dom" (cathedral, not an S&M practitioner you sickos!). Just anot... read more

Guten Tag! Wie Gehts? Ich bin sehr gut! Although this is the beginning of the journal, this is actually the last full week that I will be in Austria. I'm going to begin by basically just saying a little bit about the city and my first experiences here in Austria. The city of Salzburg is just over the German border and is situated in the "hills" as my host family says, but as you will see from my pictures, these hills are really mountains. They are the outskirts of the Alps. The city gets its name from the salt mines that are so previlant in these hills and that is why the town began in the middle ages. Salt, as I'm sure you know, was needed to preserve food, so it was considered very valuable and ... read more

Hi friends and family, We are still in Salzburg. We woke up early and apparently we are not supposed to talk to people who are staying the in the same room as you. We "met" the other two girls who are bunking with us this morning and they are not too friendly. We spent an hour in the room with them getting ready, walking around etc... and they refused to acknowledge our presence. Anyways, it was wierd. Like we were ghosts or something. We thought they were mad at us for staying in "their" room. It wasn´t raining this morning, praise the Lord, so we booked another night and rented bicycles and spent the morning and the early part of the afternoon exploring Salzburg and area. We even rode out to Hellbrunn Schloss, where we briefly ... read more