Yet another castle

The Hills are alive.....with the sound of music

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January 3rd 2007
la, la, la, la. Actually they were alive with the sound of fire crackers and fireworks, which are apparently legal over here and it must be the 'cool' thing to keep letting them off in your backyard from 4pm onwards on new years eve, why wait til midnight when you could let them off all day hey!! Anyway. We arrived in Sunny Salzburg Austria (it was 13 degrees, thats unheard of for winter time i ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more