Salzburg!!

This weekend we went to Salzburg!! It was gorgeous and sunny, couldn't have asked for a better weekend. It was even better because we prefaced our journey Thursday night by watching The Sound of Music. It's what every trip to Salzburg requires. We left Friday morning and traveled 3 hours by train. The trip was beautiful, plus we randomly met Krsh, Liz, and Anna's friend Leslie on the train. Luckily Leslie is from a little town near Salzburg and could tell us everything cool to see. Plus we got a little German practice :)


We finally arrived and then spent an extra hour trying to figure out which bus to take in what direction. This was deifinitely complicated by the fact that the hostel was already notorious for "being hard to find." Turns out the thing is pretty much in the middle of the forest. But it worked. Got a top bunk. Can't have everything.

Me while roaming the wilderness of Salzburg trying to find our hostel.

We made our way back into town and made a bee-line for the Hohensalzburg Fortress. Salzburg is an adorable little town tucked into some very steep hills and pretty much sheer cliff-faces. The Fortress was built on the top of one of those hills/cliffs. Rick Steves highly recommended the use of the Funicular(!) up the hill. Turns out it was the shortest FUNicular ever. Hahaha it was kinda funny anyways. We at least got to hear Anna repeat "Havin FUN on the FUNicular" about 15 times :) After consulting Rick again we just kinda wandered through the fortress and through some STRANGE museums. The highlight was definitely the Marionette Museum. It was the creepiest thing ever! Sooo many creepy little puppets just sitting there. We at least got to play with one at the end. The view from the Fortress was also spectacular.

The cute little city streets.

In Kapitalplatz with the Hohensalzburg fortress behind.

Kapitalplatz again, with a giant gold ball with a man statue on top.

Excited about having FUN on the FUNicular.

View from the top.



Cool tree in the courtyard. Everyone was making fun of me for taking lots of pictures of it. Leave me alone, I thought it was cool!

Old original chapel to the Fortress, was built in 1077.

Canons still aimed ready to fire at the Turks, according to our pal Rick Steves.

Creepy marionettes!!

Practicing with this guy and doing VERY poorly :)

yeeeeeeah...

The other museum in the Fortress, something about Salzburg history. These strange little wooden pole soldiers were amusing. Especially with the weird music they were playing.

View from the other side.

A really pretty room.

We went back to the station, collected Laura, took her back to the hostel, and then made our way back to town. We wandered up and down Getreidegasse, the main cutesy touristy street, and found a little pub to have dinner. It was incredibly delicious! We all got such stereotypical Austrian-German food (brats, sauerkraut, potatoes, beer) and our waiters all wore the traditional outfits that we actually saw everywhere! High socks w/ leather capri pants, lederhosen, long dresses with blouses, crazy hats...the works. We actually saw a guy with lederhosen and a polo shirt! So strange. Anyways, the rest of the night was spent just kinda walking around and taking pretty pictures.

Looking down the Salzach River

Such an Austrian dinner: Beer, Bratwurst, Sauerkraut, boiled potatoes = delicious.

Oh Anna.

River at night :)

My favorite picture.

Look at what the Salzburgers can make with bread! Oh boy!