Salzburg

Fortress is up on the hill

This past week we went on a week long vacation, making stops in Salzburg, Austria, Brno Chezch Republic, Bratislava Slovakia. I thought I would do a little blog post about each location, mostly with pictures.


Looking down on the city

One of the churches and the old town square

Our first stop was Salzburg which is about 4:30 depending on traffic from our house. We rented a apartment about 1 mile from the Old Town of Salzburg from a really nice Austrian couple who lived upstairs. They didn't speak English so it was good German practice when we had to ask them questions. They had a little crib all set up for Hannah in our room.... which we promptly moved to the second bedroom as we just don't sleep well with Hannah in our room.

Salzburg is on the edge of the Alps and is also the place that some of the Sound of Music was filmed. We spent our walking to some of the sound of music sites, cheering on runners at a half marathon that occurred on Sunday, playing at the playgrounds, sitting in on a bit of mass at the big Catholic church in town.

 

 

Salzburg also sits right on a river with really great bike paths on either side, making it a great place to explore by bikes. We sadly decided not to bring our bikes on this trip, but next time. We also would love to go on a few hikes in the mountains the next time we visit. The town was the most touristy (but not too over the top touristy) of the three we visited, making it not quite and inexpensive for shopping as the other two. We found ourselves singing a few tunes from the Sound of Music while we explored the town :)

 Mirabell Gardens, in the Sound of Music

The Gazebo from Sound of Music

 

The Estate where the Gazebo was moved to after the movie filmed

Looking down on the Estate

 

 Hannah climbing around at a really nice park on the Estate grounds