This morning when I woke up the sun was pouring in the window, I could hear the fountain in the park behind our room and I could hear the birds singing. Out the window there are snow capped peaks reminding me of the northern cascades. Makes me a little homesick! I have learned that I need mountains and water to survive where ever I live. There is an amazing healing power in just being in God’s creation! I love it! We ate breakfast in this cute oa
k paneled breakfast room with a sun room attached. Gingham placemats and cute curtains and an awesome breakfast spread of meats, cheeses, jams, bread, AND fruit salad AND yogurt! Woo Hoo! Score! We began our hike to the station and got the schedule for Fussen to Salzberg. We have to go back thru Munich and onto Salzberg. The train connection in Munich was tight! We
pulled into the station uncharacteristically late and we only had about 10 min. to get all the way across the HUGE station to platform 12 (from 36) in time to jump on the train with no markings as to it’s going to Salzberg so we asked an elderly lady and she assured us that it was. We sat in a berth with a sweet Austrian lady who spoke great English. She laughed at us while we were playing ‘horse’. She said she used to play car, because there weren’t that many cars in her day. We arrived in Salzberg along with the rest of Europe who came to watch the Euro Cup ‘08. Tomorrow Sweeden & Greece play and there are some enthusiastic Swedes here! We caught the bus (with some help from the local agent) and headed out to our pension. When we got there the lady told us she’d actually booked us at her friend’s home b/c she didn’t have any room so she loaded us up in her car after clearing out her grandkids empty cereal bowls and toys and took us to our lodging. The owner wasn’t there so the daughter let us stowe our stuff in the breakfast room. We went into town to explore the zentrum (center). In Mozart Platz we walked the Getreidegasse (the old town shopping area) and saw Mozart’s birth house. There are tons of Christmas stores and cool trinkets for tourists. Plus tons of soccer stuff & everywhere sells little chocolates w/ marzipan in the middle called Mozart balls. Yummy! We explored the St. Peter’s Church graveyard and the catacombs were closed. We began climbing a hill to see a view of the city and ended up hiking up to the Festung Hohensalzberg (Salzberg fortress & the seat of the bishops and principalities of Bavaria for many centuries). We decided to take the tour. The tour was highly disappointing but it was worth the price of admission to get the view from the top tower. A complete 360 of Salzberg! The cool thing about Salzburg (pop. 140,000 people, or so a person told us) is that you can go less than 30min. In any direction and be in the country! Beautiful city with the river runing through the middle, mountains! I could live here! We ate dinner, after we hiked down, in a little café tucked back off a
n ally that Amy noticed. We at schnitzle! And warm apple strudel! Yes! We also got to watch the Romania vs. France game. We thought we should probably get out to our pension so we could check in and the lady was there and checked us in and even took the time to make a reservation for us for the “Sound of Music” tour tomorrow. She gave us the key and we went up to our room. We paid for a double and got a quad! Usually 100 euros a night we got it for less than her double price! We only
paid 57 euro! I love a good deal! The hardwood floors, table & chairs, private balcony, the works! Plus the bathroom! We’ve had tiny little bathrooms or shared bathrooms the whole trip, this bathroom had a tub and then in another corner a shower! Plus the WC in it’s own little room with a skylight that opens! So cool! Then we read a sign that said they had laundry faculties (with a dryer, unheard of!) So we did laundry! What a blessing! God is soooooooooooo good ALL the time! Too bad we can’t stay more than one night! We saw a beautiful sunset out our window tonight and we saw stars for the first time in our whole trip! Awesome!
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