Salzburg, Ӧsterreich

“The Hills are Alive….” OK well enough with the antics. Today I hit the thousand pictures mark in the city of Salzburg were you guessed it, parts of the Sound of Music were filmed.

After Carly and I almost missed the train to Salzburg, we arrived in the city on Sunday July 10^th sometime around 2 PM. We checked in to our hotel and set out to explore the city.

Salzburg has been fun. We got to visit the Altstadt (old city) were we saw the garden were “Do, Re, Me” was filmed. See anything familiar?

We then took a side trip on a tram up into the Alps. The visibility was pretty poor and all we could see was fog but we thought it well worth the trip.

After descending the mountain we thought we would warm up at the palace of Hellbrunn. The estate built from 1613 to 1615 by the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg Markus Sittikus for the relaxation and renewal of honored guests and members of court. My guess it was more for his pleasure then his guests as you will see in the next pictures. The archbishop had a good sense of humor and loved to play tricks on his guests with his fountains.

Trick Fountain that rolls it's eyes and sticks it's tongue out at you

The Sound of Music Gazebo was donated to the city of Salzburg and they placed it here on the Hellbrunn estate.

The castle of Hohensalzburg situated above the town of Salzburg was built in 1077. We visited the castle on our second day. The view was spectacular.

There is just too much to see and so little time to see it all. We keep staying out so late that we almost miss dinner. Most places close around the 6’oclock hour and so it becomes difficult to find a place to eat. Most people in this part of the world do not have, what we would call dinner at the dinner hour, rather, they would have it at our lunch hour. Their dinners largely consist of cold plates of meat cheese and bread. Breakfast is much the same except they may also have Müsli, a granola cereal or even potato pancakes. YUM! 

On Wednesday we will be catching the train to the Tirol region.

See you all soon,

Jeremy