Our Days in Salzburg

3/10/18

We left early from Frankfurt. Mum's always paranoid about the main train station. She seems to be scared of it. We started with an Ice train to Munich. It was very comfortable and very fast. After that 3 1/2-hour trip, we caught a Railjet train to Salzburg. It was about 1 1/2 hours, but it wasn't as comfortable, was really crowded and the Wi-Fi kept cutting out. We found getting to our accommodation easy because it was just across the road from the station and the Housemeister, Milanka, met us with the key. The accommodation is an Airbnb that you get to by riding a very cramped lift with an unusual door. Just like the lift, the shower is so cramped you can't even swing a mouse. When you sit on the toilet, your knees are pressing against the washing machine. We went for a walk, but it was wet, cold, and not very nice. I found a genuine Austrian restaurant called Die Weisse. I had Hungarian goulash, and Mum and Dad had roast pork with potatoes and sauerkraut.

4/10/18

We woke up to a much better day. Blue skies, warmer weather. We walked to Mirabell Palace and bought tickets for the Hop On/Hop Off bus which took us on a tour of Salzburg. We stopped and took photos near the lake where The Sound of Music was filmed. Then we stopped at Schloss Hellbrenn and walked around for a while. We caught the Hop On/Hop Off bus for the rest of the tour. Then we stopped at a cafe for lunch where I had a ham and cheese sarnie. We got on a smaller bus that went up narrow streets and alleys in the Old Town. We got off halfway and had a look around. There were many soccer "Hooligans" (as Mum called them) celebrating in the main square while being watched over by the Polizei. We did a bit of souvenir shopping before going back on the bus. That night, we got on the train to Salzburg Mülln-Altstadt, or at least we planned to. We went the wrong way firstly (thank you Mum and Dad, their sense of direction isn't improving) so we had to catch another train going the opposite way. Eventually we got to Augustinerbräu - Kloster Mülln. It´s like a big beer hall in a former monastery. We seemed to be amusing to the Austrian couple taking residence at our table. Their English was about as good as our German.