Quiet Days in Salzburg

We were in Salzburg, home to Mozart and The Sound of Music, for two nights. The first night we stayed in a place that was an odd combo of a hotel and hostel instead of Yoho (where we had our original reservations) because of the date changes and reservation conflicts that resulted from our addition of Munich to the itinerary. We spent that first night wandering around the old city and the gardens where a few scenes in The Sound of Music took place. We also found an awesome ice cream stand with odd flavors such as poppyseed and chocolate chili that all proved to be delicious, and indulged ourselves there for a while.

The next morning we woke up to a 45°F, windy, rainy city. We trapsed the 30 minutes from the hotel, past the grocery store at the train station, and to the Yoho hostel where we were to spend our second night. After a few hours of watching The Sound of Music and eating our grocery store lunches, we decided to just kill the rainy day by going to see Harry Potter at the cinema.

Let me just take this minute to compliment the Austrians on their seemingly ubiquitous English skills and politeness, even in non-touristy areas. It has been consistent our whole stay in Austria thus far and it has been really nice.

After the movie we got dinner at the grocery store (noticing a pattern here?) and went back to the hostel where we spent the remainder of our evening talking to the awesome British girls in our room who had decided to stay in for the night when the rain ruined their plans to find apple strudel and ice cream in the city. We were lulled to sleep by constant shouting and banging from a number of the other guests imbibing in the bar downstairs.

We woke up early the next morning to be out before 10 (the earliest we've left a hostel this whole trip) so we could actually see some of Salzburg. We took a fernicular to the Salzburger (not kidding) castle on top of the large hill in the city and afterward, we stopped by Mozart's birthplace and former residence. Finally, we hopped the 2pm train to our final stop in Austria, Innsbruck.