Salzburg. Day 0 and day 1
Plane left at the convenient time of just ater 4pm. Unfortunately, getting to Gatwick with plenty of leeway meant leaving early. And we arrived quite late. Weather was 'orrible. Still, hotel was dry and had bed in it. Also a bath, that flickums decided to take advantage of. Flick was still full after second breakfast at the airport, but I wasn't, so I had to hunt down food. Took a while finding somewhere that just did something snack-like but I was much hapier when I returned. I was a bit cold and wet though, and flick was enjoying lounging in her jim-jams in the warm.
Sunday morning - weather still grotty. Also mildly anxious about there being enough to do. We do have a couple of planned trips. It being winter though a number of places are closed. I would have liked to have seen the marionette show but that only hapens between March and December. Stil, there is a contingency if we do run out of ideas. Am pondering whether to spend a few days in Munich instead.
Day 1 is best spent exploring. We walked into town. Salzburg is very pretty. We went to a nice cafe for lunch (zum mohren). Apparently Mozart and Schubert were amongst its patrons. Had a look at Mozart's bithplace because we're in Salzburg so we should.
I also wanted to visit Hohensalzburg castle, but had heard it was shut durng the winter. Turns out I had it confused with Helbrun palace. The castle was open. There's an option to walk. Or you can take the funicular and save the effort. So we did. Turns out though, it was later than I'd thought (timezones messed up my time sense). Still, we had enough time to see the bling room, a hatchet/wheel-lock pisol combo, varous weapons and what I assume it the magical theatre. Fantastic views from the tops. We saw some alps and some hills.
Having finished that, we loitered a bit before going on a hunt for strudel. We saw a shop that was selling strubel or owned by Herr Strubel so we figured we must be close. It didn't take long to find a strudelry. We strolled to the strudler and ate tasty main meal followed by strudel. We are now fully strudled.
Also less anxious about finding things to do to fill the time. There's actually quite a few things here and around. And if we do run out there's always an option of a second day trip somewhere.
Sunday morning - weather still grotty. Also mildly anxious about there being enough to do. We do have a couple of planned trips. It being winter though a number of places are closed. I would have liked to have seen the marionette show but that only hapens between March and December. Stil, there is a contingency if we do run out of ideas. Am pondering whether to spend a few days in Munich instead.
Day 1 is best spent exploring. We walked into town. Salzburg is very pretty. We went to a nice cafe for lunch (zum mohren). Apparently Mozart and Schubert were amongst its patrons. Had a look at Mozart's bithplace because we're in Salzburg so we should.
I also wanted to visit Hohensalzburg castle, but had heard it was shut durng the winter. Turns out I had it confused with Helbrun palace. The castle was open. There's an option to walk. Or you can take the funicular and save the effort. So we did. Turns out though, it was later than I'd thought (timezones messed up my time sense). Still, we had enough time to see the bling room, a hatchet/wheel-lock pisol combo, varous weapons and what I assume it the magical theatre. Fantastic views from the tops. We saw some alps and some hills.
Having finished that, we loitered a bit before going on a hunt for strudel. We saw a shop that was selling strubel or owned by Herr Strubel so we figured we must be close. It didn't take long to find a strudelry. We strolled to the strudler and ate tasty main meal followed by strudel. We are now fully strudled.
Also less anxious about finding things to do to fill the time. There's actually quite a few things here and around. And if we do run out there's always an option of a second day trip somewhere.