Salzburg!

We had a bit of free time last weekend , so we took a quick nip across the border into Austria for a day! We grabbed the first train we could, but it wasn't a direct train, so we had a short layover in Prien am Chiemsee first. It was a nice little town, and we wandered around for about an hour, taking photos and looking into a little bike shop we found. Then we got onto the connecting train to Salzburg.

Salzburg

Salzburg was even more awesome than I remember it, probably because I didn't have to deal with an uptight tourguide this time. From the train station we made our way to the river, then followed it upstream to the old part of town. On our way, we stopped and played in the playground for a bit.

I think Austrian children must have amazing balance.

After we were done embarrassing ourselves in the playground, we continued up the river. We were getting hungry, so we decided to stop at a little Italian place for dinner. I thought the lasagna was pretty good, but the waitress was kinda crafty in the way she charged us for the wine... The portions were pretty small too, so when we left we were still looking for food. We made our way to the Dom zu Salzburg. It's another impressive church, and we were lucky enough to go on a day they were having an organ concert! I took some video, but we couldn't actually see the guy playing, so I just pointed my mic up and recorded the chair in front of me. I'll try to add it in later, I can't seem to load it here right now.

We left the church and made our way across the river, trying to make our way to the monastary on the hill. On our way we found a Swedish candy store, and stocked up on various gummy products: bears, worms, vampire teeth (did I mention this was Halloween?). It was a steep hike, but it was totally worth it as we got an excellent view of the city at night! It was getting a bit late now, so we decided to head back to the train station, but we wanted to stop at a few sites along the way. First was a big garden where a scene from the Sound of Music was filmed (Somehow a large percentage of us knew some songs...) and the second was another awesome playground not far from the garden. This one had a short rock climbing wall that led to a slide, and this musical toy where you stepped on bronze stepping blocks and a bell of a certain note rang. Those spoiled Austrian kids!

We caught the right train home, direct, so we could nap without fear of ending up in Italy or something. Made it home safe and sound, then promptly fell asleep!