Today is Andreas and I’s 50th day anniversary. Or in other words we are halfway done our trip and still haven’t left one another yet, so I say its going well :)
We are off to Salzburg for day and much to our surprise the train had wifi! Now this is so rare its lie spotting a four leaf clover in a meadow. We came to the rational conclusion that this was especially for our anniversary. Lets just say that it was the most enjoyable train ride yet!
Once we got into Salzburg Andrea noticed that is was recycling day there and grabbed a piece of cardboard and headed off to find a hill to slide down. Now she says that she used to do this back at home and that it worked but I was skeptical. We did find a hill and she tried to slide down the hill but she wasn’t able to go! People sitting in the benches began to laugh as did I. She ended up log rolling down hill instead. After the fun was over we went to the Mirabell Palace and Gardens. Which I had just learned the night before was where the Sound of Music was filmed. Then intricate patterns of the flowers in the garden beds was so pretty. When we got closer to the flowers I realized that the designs where with rocks as well, which I wasn’t able to see form above. To walk further into the town we crossed the river where we finally saw some mountains! In Europe people often refer to mountains as what I consider hills back at home. Andreas classification that if you can drive up to then top than it isn’t a mountain, which is not certainly that case here. Crossing the bridge lead us to be bombarded with Mozart everything, and I literally mean everything! Whatever you could place Mozart on there was a Mozart store that has it! We then passed by the birth place of Mozart where the street level has been converted to a very high end bar! We also went to the Salzburg Dom, Nonnberg Convent, and St. Peter’s Abbey. Inside the Abbey there was like an open courtyard with tombstones in the middle and along the covered sides there were extremely elaborate graves. Some had wall high paintings, statues and fences barricading them! After eating lunch in the University of Salzburg’s courtyard we walked past some students sketching scenery; oh how I wish I could draw! With some newfound energy we descend up the hill to go to the Salzburg Fortress. It was insanely steep but the view was so rewarding! We made sure to take it all in before we had to go back down again. Going down was even more dangerous! This should have been the time for Andrea to try out her cardboard sled! We made it down in tact and then roamed through the streets once more stepping inside cute local shops before heading back to Vienna. Once we got back to Charlottes we realized that we need to slow down since we’ve been keeping busy the past few days!