Tuesday, June 10 2008
The day of the big game here in Salzberg! But we ate a yummy breakfast at our pension on the pattio and then waited for Bob’s Special Tours to pick us up. The funny thing is that it’s a short yellow VW Euro Van. Yes it’s the short bus! The Sound of Music Tour. THE MOST AMERICAN TOURIST THING WE’VE DONE! The sights were fun to see and identify as in the movie, like the gazebo, the house, the gardens, the church where they got married. It was super cool to hear the real life story of the VonTrap family and realize that it wasn’t a picnic and they had a really hard life. We did get to go out into the lake areas beyond Salzberg and see some sights out there and I loved seeing St. Gilgen and Montse
e (I’m not sure if I spelled that right). Beautiful mountains and glacial lakes with picturesque little towns set down by them. (see pictures for more details.) When we got back we hiked with our huge packs to the funicular to take us up the Monchsberg to our hostel Stadlam. They wanted like 11 euros for the funicular + the museum. We informed them we’d already seen the museum and wanted just to ride up. He said no and that we had to use the lift on the other side of town about a half 
mile away. We both said forget it and then Amy said “I think we can just do it!” I confirmed that she actually meant hike up the stinking huge mountain with our 40lb. Packs and she said “yes” well naturally not wanting to look like a wuss, I was like “heck yes we can do that!” Okay maybe it wasn’t that positive! We eventually made it up the MILLIONS of steps and sweating (it was pretty warm yesterday afternoon) to our hostel. Got all checked in and our view is breathtaking! We can see all the way from our hostel to the Hohensalzberg and the entire city! Beautiful. About ready to pass out we decided maybe we should eat, since it was 2:30PM & some how we always forget about lunch. We headed down the stairs (we counted 335 of them) and grabbed lunch at a little café with internet so we could make reservations in Interlaken (our next stop). We found a pension with a room available and it has a little kitchenette! Thank goodness, we were having a time of it the other day when we were looking for rooms nothing available in Interlaken, praise God! We also booked our room in Geneva as Amy’s computer died. Few. We at least got done what we’d come to do. It was a nice and quiet café off the main street hidden behind a church. Perfect! With all the fans parading around it’s quite udder chaos! We enjoyed the Mirabell 
Gardens wehere a lot of the Sound of Music scenes are filmed and also it’s just a beautiful place to enjoy a quiet afternoon away from the scurry of the city, especially with football being here. As we headed back into old town across the bridge we were arrested by the sight of a wave of yellow and blue fans with a police escort marching to the stadium singing The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” and the Swedish National Anthem. Wow, see the pictures. There were thousands of them! Man alive! We went to a café/bar to grab some more free internet so that we could do stuff like post our blog and e-mail but we didn’t bring the converted for the cord and we weren’t about to hike up the hill for that. So we just enjoyed a snack of chips & salsa while we watched the Spain vs. Russian game. Spain killed Russia with 3 goals by David Villa and none by Russia! We had to drop by the FanZone to take pictures and see the crazies ready to cheer on Sweden! Wow! There are not words to describe the hub of activity here! Again, see pictures! Both the FanZone and the overflow zone were full! We hiked up to the hostel and enjoyed all the thunder and lightening all around Salzberg. It didn’t rain in Salzberg at all but the pink lightening was incredible! The view from our hostel was amazing, we could see the whole city and all the sights AND the lightening hitting in the hills. A group of 7 police men and women come up to where our hostel is and were taking pictures too. Not that they didn’t have thousands of unruly fans down below but they were taking a smoke and picture break. Kinda funny. Well we took showers and tried to sleep. Our roommate is from California. Hey, our coast! Cool. The party could be heard from the city below until early in the morning. Daylight was coming in the window when it was finally quiet!
The day of the big game here in Salzberg! But we ate a yummy breakfast at our pension on the pattio and then waited for Bob’s Special Tours to pick us up. The funny thing is that it’s a short yellow VW Euro Van. Yes it’s the short bus! The Sound of Music Tour. THE MOST AMERICAN TOURIST THING WE’VE DONE! The sights were fun to see and identify as in the movie, like the gazebo, the house, the gardens, the church where they got married. It was super cool to hear the real life story of the VonTrap family and realize that it wasn’t a picnic and they had a really hard life. We did get to go out into the lake areas beyond Salzberg and see some sights out there and I loved seeing St. Gilgen and Montse
e (I’m not sure if I spelled that right). Beautiful mountains and glacial lakes with picturesque little towns set down by them. (see pictures for more details.) When we got back we hiked with our huge packs to the funicular to take us up the Monchsberg to our hostel Stadlam. They wanted like 11 euros for the funicular + the museum. We informed them we’d already seen the museum and wanted just to ride up. He said no and that we had to use the lift on the other side of town about a half 
mile away. We both said forget it and then Amy said “I think we can just do it!” I confirmed that she actually meant hike up the stinking huge mountain with our 40lb. Packs and she said “yes” well naturally not wanting to look like a wuss, I was like “heck yes we can do that!” Okay maybe it wasn’t that positive! We eventually made it up the MILLIONS of steps and sweating (it was pretty warm yesterday afternoon) to our hostel. Got all checked in and our view is breathtaking! We can see all the way from our hostel to the Hohensalzberg and the entire city! Beautiful. About ready to pass out we decided maybe we should eat, since it was 2:30PM & some how we always forget about lunch. We headed down the stairs (we counted 335 of them) and grabbed lunch at a little café with internet so we could make reservations in Interlaken (our next stop). We found a pension with a room available and it has a little kitchenette! Thank goodness, we were having a time of it the other day when we were looking for rooms nothing available in Interlaken, praise God! We also booked our room in Geneva as Amy’s computer died. Few. We at least got done what we’d come to do. It was a nice and quiet café off the main street hidden behind a church. Perfect! With all the fans parading around it’s quite udder chaos! We enjoyed the Mirabell 
Gardens wehere a lot of the Sound of Music scenes are filmed and also it’s just a beautiful place to enjoy a quiet afternoon away from the scurry of the city, especially with football being here. As we headed back into old town across the bridge we were arrested by the sight of a wave of yellow and blue fans with a police escort marching to the stadium singing The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” and the Swedish National Anthem. Wow, see the pictures. There were thousands of them! Man alive! We went to a café/bar to grab some more free internet so that we could do stuff like post our blog and e-mail but we didn’t bring the converted for the cord and we weren’t about to hike up the hill for that. So we just enjoyed a snack of chips & salsa while we watched the Spain vs. Russian game. Spain killed Russia with 3 goals by David Villa and none by Russia! We had to drop by the FanZone to take pictures and see the crazies ready to cheer on Sweden! Wow! There are not words to describe the hub of activity here! Again, see pictures! Both the FanZone and the overflow zone were full! We hiked up to the hostel and enjoyed all the thunder and lightening all around Salzberg. It didn’t rain in Salzberg at all but the pink lightening was incredible! The view from our hostel was amazing, we could see the whole city and all the sights AND the lightening hitting in the hills. A group of 7 police men and women come up to where our hostel is and were taking pictures too. Not that they didn’t have thousands of unruly fans down below but they were taking a smoke and picture break. Kinda funny. Well we took showers and tried to sleep. Our roommate is from California. Hey, our coast! Cool. The party could be heard from the city below until early in the morning. Daylight was coming in the window when it was finally quiet!
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