Salzburg

So around 7:45 this morning we boarded our Ryan Air flight to Salzburg. We had booked it long in advance as it was only about 40$ per person. It turned out to be a great way to travel.

Arriving in Salzburg was more stressful than London. Most of the people we have met speak English but there are still a handful that don't. So it took us awhile to find out where the bus was, which ticket to buy (which we did wrong), and where our hostel was. Luckily a nice English speaking man helped us out. As we walked from the bus to our hostel we were able to see lots of the streets of Salzburg. So far we love it!

There are tons of little shops and restaurants on every street and it is much more relaxed than London. We definitely loved London - such a cool historic, yet modern, city with tons to do and see. We also loved how friendly everyone was. Yet I think we are finding that we probably enjoy the smaller side of Europe more. We voted against buying the Salzburg pass as we realized that we didn't like the pressure to see tons of sights just so we get our money's worth - and I am glad we did. This day has been by far the most relaxing and we spent most of it simply walking around the city.

We got a cheap lunch at a university cafeteria and also got our first gelato (it was pretty good) then headed towards Old Salzburg. We decided to tour the Mozarts house (the word Mozart is everywhere here as this was his hometown) which ended up falling a little flat. I really thought I would be interested in learning about his life but the museum was boring and simply didn't interest Emily and I. It also didn't help that we were exhausted from little nights sleep (we had to leave really early and got to bed late) so we decided to go take a nap while Mike and Tiffany walked around town for a couple of hours.



We reunited later in the evening and Tiffany was wearing a dress like the ones on Sound of Music. She had bought two and hoped that Emily would buy one. I guess they are normally 300 euros but they got them for 10 each. Em tried it on and I actually really liked it - it looked great on her. So she changed into it and the rest of the night they walked around in their swiss looking dresses. We did Rick Steves walking tour of Salzburg which took us around some famous sites in the city and got us more oriented and then we ate at a place that Rick Steves recommended. It was a small restaurant ran by a couple people and we loved it.


We got Schnitzel and sausage entrees and had apple strudel for dessert. We loved all of it. The town is simply a lot different than any town I have been to in the states - we love the historic laid back feel. We also enjoyed not feeling like we had to see as many sites as we could.