On Jan 1 we took the train to Salzburg.
Salzburg is the birthplace of Mozart, we visited the
We
went on a tour to the Salt Mines.
apartment he lived in while we were in Vienna. Nan
They
give you groovy outfits to wear!
just corrected me....I thought the picture at the left
was taken in Salzburg...actually we just strolled past
his birthplace while we were in Salzburg.
Nan wanted to go on the Sound of Music
tour so I gave in and we went. You may recognize the gazebo and Leopold house in the
above pictures. Our tour guide said the gazebo is now locked because an elderly lady
broke her hip a while back while trying to hop from bench to bench inside the gazebo.
This is the Hohensalzburg
Fortress in the background. After the hike back
down from the fortress we
We made the trek up the road to the fortress...opting
decided to taste the local monks' brew at the
out on the wimpy elevator ride.
Augustiner
Bräustübl. You grab your own Liter mug
from
a shelf and a clerk fills it up from a Very Large
tapped
keg. This place supposedly sits a thousand
people
inside and two thousand outside during the
summer!
While staying at Salzburg we made a day trip to Munich. In Munich we visited Dachau and the mandatory trip to the Hofbrauhaus for dinner and more beer. On the morning of January 5th we boarded the train to Zermatt...our favorite part of the entire trip!!!
*click on the images above to see the full size images
