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

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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 in the alps) for new years eve, the home of 'mozart' and 'the sound of music'. And, what a beautiful city it was.
Our new years eve was spent in an irish pub (2 aussies, in an irish pub in austria.....good combo) then dancing to the 'wild cats' band in the old town square in central salzburg.
Then it was straight to bed after midnight, as we had an early 6am rise to catch a train to italy, oh the things we do.
Anyway, we spent our time exploring the grand city, climbing the castle and admiring the alpine scenery (with very little snow) it was nice and relaxing and good to warm up slightly after Prague, although Jackets and scarves were still required.
We're now in Venice Italy and as usual are having a ball, but I'll save all that info for the next blog (prepare yourself for more crazy 'toilet' stories....)
So for now, you can check out our pictures of Salzburg, whilst humming songs from the sound of music....enjoy!

HERE'S THE PICS FINALLY......APOLOGIES TO DAD AND ROB, IT MOMENTARILY SLIPPED OUR MINDS THAT YOU'S TWO CANT READ!

ALSO FORGOT TO SAY HAPPY NEW YEAR.......WOOHOO, YEEHAH, YEAH.....thats enough.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HAPPY 27TH BDAY TO MY BABY BRO, YOU DONT LOOK A DAY OVER 12, ALTHOUGH, A RATHER ODD LOOKING 12 YR OLD, MICK SAID TO SAY 12 YEAR OLDS ARENT NORMALLY BALD AND FAT, I THINK HE MEANS THAT IN A NICE WAY THOUGH, HE DID END THE SENTENCE WITH DWARFS ARE CUTE :-) XXX

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Photos

The hills are alive people!
Ah Salzburg....magnificent country side!

Yet another castle
This was a real goody though, and on a cliff-top too, there's gotta be bonus 'castle points' for that!

The 'farty artist' is back!
This one is from his latest collection, he likes to call this his 'crooked camera' collection.

Behind every good artist.........
Is a good lookin missus!! hahahahhahaha. Check out the chandeliers in the passage?!

The perfect location!!
I managed to find the perfect location for Mick to hold his next exhibition.....aptly named, dont you think?? :-)

Doing what he does best???
Micks polishing the knob on this fine church.......

Outdoor ice-skating...
not just for the brits, Salzburg folks show off their skating skills on new years eve!!

Happy New Year.......
Me mixing it with the locals on new years eve. Yeah, lets jig people!

Another year over.....
A new one just begun. Mick catches some zzzz's on the train to italy. Let it be known, he is not scared to hog seats!

Check that out....
The view of the Austrian Alps from the train window, should I have woken Mick up???

Here's the proof.....
This pic is from Cesky and obviously should have been on the last blog, but we forgot. So here it is, proof that we were snowed on! And the only english words we had heard in a week came that night from 3 aussies running down the street yelling 'f*ck me, its snowin, get the camera'!!

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Is that it?
What happened to happy new year , short and sweet blog but we need more hunny bun