Salzburg

Today finds us running through the train station again but today we are taking the regional train to Salzburg, Austria. It is about an hour and forty minutes from Munich. About an hour into the trip we begin to go through tunnels in the mountains. Then we start to see hills clustered with Alpine style homes with pitched roofs and flower boxes. It is a cloudy day with rain which masks some of the mountains in the morning, but later the sun shines and it is a nice day. Once in Salzburg. we see the old town, part of which was started in the 900s. The snow-capped mountains and grassy ountains with trees are all around us. This is the birthplace of Mozart a d there is a large fountain of his likeness in one of the squares. We took a long long, long climb up to the Fortress Castle overlooking the old town. The views here were spectacular! Walking around the castle ( did I mention it was a long walk straight up to the castle?) and its museum really gives you a sense of life back then. Some of the rooms have ceiling and wood wall coverings from centuries ago. This is the town where several of the scenes from The Sound of Music were filmed. We had planned to see some of these but instead chose to spend time in the castle and walking around the old town. After a couple of trains we are back at the apartment around 11:00. It was a long but fun day. Helping make it a good day was that I finally got a chocolate croissant!! Each day we would be running to catch a train and I would wave "allo" to these. pastries and forge onward. By the time we would come back in the evening, they would be gone or the store was closed. But not today. Today was the day we had some time to spare so I got my chocolate croissant and it was all I had hoped for and more... Tomorrow we are spendi g the day shopping and enjoying Munich near our neighborhood before we leave in a couple of days.