Today we went to Salzburg, Austria! I have never been to Salzburg before or Austria. I also have never taken a train anywhere before, so today was loaded with “firsts” for me today.
Once we got off the train and after our hunt for a usable restroom, we started walking towards where we were supposed to meet our Salzburg tour guide. We started our tour in Mirabellplatz, where the DO-RE-MI scene was filmed in The Sound of Music. (The Sound of Music is one of my absolute favorite movies!) This ranks as one of the most exciting parts of the tour for me, seeing sights where the Sound of Music was filmed. We saw steps that the children sang on, two fountains from the movie, statues, and a green leafy arched passageway that the kids run through. I think our tour guide said we were suppose to see the house from the Sound of Music as well as the Von Trapp’s actual home, but we did not get a chance to see that.
Another highlight from this walking tour today is seeing Mozart’s birthplace and learning about him. It’s amazing how muh of a genius he was, and I love how we got to see the house he was born in. This just shows you truly how remarkable and preserved the city is. I can’t believe such an old building is still there. This goes for the entire old city. It is just so preserved to look like it did hundreds of years ago. It’s amazing. I also love the architecture. It’s beautiful and really has that old middle aged charm.
As for the weather today… it was alright during the walking tour. It only rained a little bit during the tour, but after the tour is when it really started to pour. To make matters worst, it was a holiday so mostly everything was closed. The only shops, which were open were the tourist gift shops and you can only go in so many gift shops before they all start to look the exact same! Katie and I walked alongside the river through a market, but then the stand owners began to close up because of the cold rainy weather. Then we took shelter in some enclosed sidewalk and sat there for 30 minutes to take up time before we had to go to dinner.
I loved the place we ate dinner. The restaurants seemed extremely small from the outside, but it was actually pretty big, with many different floors, which had small rooms to eat in. We ate in a small room after climbing about 4 or 5 sets of stairs, some very uneven. Naturally, while we were eating dinner, the weather became very nice. We had a nice dinner and then made our way back to the train station so we could journey back to Munich.
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