Today, once again it was a rainy drizzly day. We got up and headed over to the Munich train station to eat some breakfast and catch our train toSalzburg. The train station is much like an airport with one glaring exception! No place to sit down and wait. Lots and lots of food kiosks but very few places to sit. We went into Burger King but they don't even have a breakfast menu so we ordered cokes and coffee and went into the terminal for pastries which we brought back to Burger King!
The train to Salzburg was nice. Little separate compartments with six seats in each. We got to Salzburg and took a cab to the hotel called All You Need Hotel! Not really all you need cause there is no Internet in the room and no airconditioning! Glad it is cool enough outside to have the window open.
Then we did a two hour walking tour of Salzburg - means Salt Castle or some such. They made their money from the salt mines that were close by and shipped the salt down river to much of Europe. Salt was as expensive as gold in the Middle Ages because it was used to preserve meat and fish. We saw a lot of the places that were used in the filming of the Sound of Music. It is a beautiful town and it makes about 70% of its money from tourism. It reminds me a lot of a European Vail.
After the two hour walking tour we did a four hour bus tour about the Sound of Music. We saw the lake where the house was though the house in the movie was not really there - it was someplace else in Salzburg and dubbed in! Can't believe anything you see in the movies! We saw the gazebo from the movie but in the movie there were really two because the one that was filmed from a distance really wasn't big enough to do all that dancing in!
Then we drove up into the mountain and lakes region which was beautiful even if we really couldn't see much of the mountains because of the clouds and the rain. Sorry Kathe - no Hills are alive... on this trip, too rainy though we did sing all the songs in the bus. Felt like I was back in camp!! We stopped to see the church which was used for the wedding scene in the movie.
When we got back to Salzburg we went out to dinner. Wiener schnitzel for dinner again and a beer that came in a bottle like a champagne and had a ginger taste to it. Jerry and Lori hated it but I thought it was pretty good!
Pictures to follow.
The steps where they sang Do,Re,Mi
The gardens with the fortress in the background
This pedestrian bridge had all these locks on it - the tradition in Salzburg is to put a lock on the bridge the day you get married and throw the key in the river!
How's this for a Golden Arches sign? You could eat here, Emmy!
I miss Breck so much I even take pictures of strange dogs!
The Sound of Music lake.
The Sound of Music wedding church.
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