Debbielynn

Next day in Salzburg. We had until about 3 pm until a storm blew in. Then it rained the rest of the day.



Love wurst and cheese for breakfast with a nice sunflower seed bread!





Walking down Linzergasse, pedestrian street


This alleyway takes you up stairs to the Capichin Monastry overlooking the river. I would like to take a look but don’t want to do all the stairs.






Dirndls and lederhosen anyone?


Salzach river


Fortress on the hill. We never got to go there.


Beautiful flowers.

progol

Debbielynn, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying your trip report,but every time I’m about to post, there are a dozen more posts that I need to read! I finally gave in and decided to write back before I finished all the posts and just let you know I’m following, too!

I’ve loved seeing the photos in Greece, and enjoyed your family wedding. How wonderful to have a family connection - I lived some of the reminiscences.

I’’m now just reading your family history and find it moving to read about your family background. Thank you for writing about it and sharing the obstacles that your family endured. I imagine it was very moving to visit.

I’m looking forward to reading the rest and enjoying the photos.

Debbielynn

Progol, thank you for your comments. I have been following your post too. I see you are already planning another trip. My husband said that the next trip can’t have all the walking! He wants to stay in one place for a week, preferably a beach. There is a good chance that we might return to Platamonas and Litochoro region next year and just hang but I’m not good about staying in one place. Love to see churches, museums and cemeteries. And take pictures!

Debbielynn

Mirabell palace and gardens

For some reason, the last time we were in Salzburg, in 2006, George did not come to the gardens. He was probably sitting in a cafe somewhere, secretly smoking! He quit many years ago and went back after 5 years but thought he was keeping it a secret from me! Ha! He was always sneaking off and thought he was being so clever. Well, he has quit again but is now sucking on one of those e-cigarettes. I guess it’s better than the real thing but I don’t approve and I know that it is also not good. Nicotine addiction is pretty tough, I smoked for many years, now I eat instead!!

George was enjoying the Gardens this time and taking lots of pictures. Salzburg is so picturesque and I couldn’t stop snapping away!









Pegasus statue





Do-re-mi…


They were setting up for some sort of art exhibit, with mannequins placed all over the gardens. A little odd.



A wedding party. We always see wedding on our trips!





Nice picture of George, who usually doesn’t smile.






Part of the exhibit

Debbielynn

Getreidegasse The city has kept up the tradition of metal signs over stores to indicate with pictures what is sold there. This dates back to when many people could not read. There are many high end chain stores in the city. The rent must be astronomical! And the alpine clothing is so expensive! Many of the women in Salzburg wear dirndls every day, not just on special occasions.


Salzburg’s favorite son


Alpine hats


Mozart’s birth house





Mozart statue


The cathedral of Salzburg

hetismij2

Thankyou for this report. Loving it, and all the photos. Good to read your family history too. It must have been so emotional revisiting your family's home, and lovely you were able to scatter some of your father's ashes there.

Such a shame about your husband's feet though. The sort of thing that mine would end up with too!

Radler is a mix of beer and lemonade/7Up similar to Shandy in the UK. It gets the radler name from being the drink of choice for thirsty German cyclists.

hetismij2

A quick question. You bought a vignette for Austria but did you do the same for Slovenia? I know you are supposed to.

Debbielynn

Yes, hetismij2, I should have mentioned the vignette for Slovenia too. It was 25 euros. Austria had a self sticking patch for the windshield. The clerk at the first Slovenian gas station/ convenience store put it in the computer for me and gave me a receipt, which I put in my glove compartment. There was nothing for the windshield. I don’t really know how that worked. Maybe you only have to show it if they stop you. I will keep it in case we ever receive a ticket in the mail. In Italy many years ago, we got a ticket for entering the historic district of Luca with a car. We didn’t get the ticket from the rental agency for about 9 months. Of course, by then we had already forgotten about it!

Debbielynn

Sorry, I meant $15 euros for the vignette.

Debbielynn

A Saturday morning walk in Salzburg. We visited St Sabastian cemetery, behind the church of the same name. So beautiful and peaceful. Mozart’s widow and father are buried here. I read that Mozart was buried in a pauper’s grave in Vienna.

Then we walked down to the river and across to the old town. It is a glorious, sunny day today. Being a Saturday, there were mobs of people and tour groups. So glad I don’t have to follow anyone like a herd of sheep!

Next we walked to St. Peter’s church cemetery. What a beautiful place. Love this cemetery. Wouldn’t mind spending eternity here. I think they filmed some of the Sound of Music scenes here.



Mozart’s wife and father



So peaceful









The well-dressed Salzburger. Love this skirt!

Beautiful children’s clothing too






Translation of above poem




Fortress on the hill







So peaceful and beautiful. I could stay here for eternity!



Family above ground catacombs





The cathedral in the background

Debbielynn

A few more pictures of Salzburg and off we go to Munich, which is about 2 hrs away.



Near the Dom again with the horse fountain

You can take a horse and carriage through the city

Market day

Lots of meat



Lots more wurst

Adelaidean

I love Salzburg, I think I’ve visited 3 times now.

My DH is older than me, too, and always says ‘never again’ when we return home after our gruelling long haul flights.
And I’m planning our next trip on that flight, lol.

If we go Singapore Airlines, we have a 7 + hour flight, a 10 hr layover, then a 13 + hr flight.
The return is an overnight flight so the jetlag/ sleep deprivation is brutal.
My strategy is going to have to change if I’m to get him back on a plane….
Maybe premium economy and a 2 night stopover in Singapore, rather than arrive 7 am and fly out overnight at midnight…
Somehow I’ve got to sacrifice a few days and some $ to make it more tolerable.

Debbielynn

Adelaidean, exactly where did you say you were going?

KarenWoo

I love your photos of Salzburg. We visited Salzburg for one day from Munich in the mid 90's. I don't remember much. So it's nice to see your photos.

Adelaidean, where are you from? Australia? The flights do sound brutal. We live in Massachusetts so it's easy to get to Europe. But we have visited China several times, and those flights can be brutal, especially when we visited Yunnan province. But your flight schedules sound worse.

Adelaidean

We are in South Australia, quickest routing is Qatar 14 hours to Doha, 4 hr layover then 6+ hours to Europe.
But that’s pretty full on.
So an alternative is via Asia, but long layovers and then overnight flights which mess with body clock.
I’ve got to get it right for DH to agree to it.
I keep sending him photos of ‘places we will visit’ because otherwise he might just suggest another road trip around Tasmania (love Tassie, but….Europe beckons)

Debbielynn

I don’t think I would be able to tolerate such a long journey either! NY to anywhere in Europe is more than long enough for me.

progol

Great trip report! I finally finished reading and love it! Beautiful vistas! Oh, those mountains. They are gorgeous!

I'm glad to hear your husband is doing much better - ugh, cellulitis. It’s so good you caught it and made sure to get to a doctor ASAP instead of waiting! I can relate- my husband has had numerous health issues while traveling, though nothing major, and I’ve learned to be very flexible. With longer trips but aging bodies it’s become a necessity.

I loved the photo of 12-year-old you. How wonderful, too, that you were able to scatter your father’s ashes there. I can only imagine how that felt, but so moving to read about it. And seeing the photo of your grandfather, the fire chief, at a historic fire - wow!

Debbielynn

Progol, that is the 20 yr old me on my honeymoon in 1978! The 12 yr old me was a chubbo!

Debbielynn

We left Salzburg and headed to Munich. Should have been about a 2 hr drive. We planned a visit to the Dachau memorial site but due to a huge traffic jam on the autobahn, we lost over an hour’s time and only had about a 1.5 hrs at the site. Had I known what I found out during the coming night about our flight cancellation, I would have switched the visit to Dachau for tomorrow ( Sunday) with a drive to Munich today. Between walking the long distance from the parking lot and the size of the camp, it was impossible to do it any sort of justice. The size is enormous and much of it is completely open to the hot sun. I just couldn’t walk the whole thing. Suffice it to say that when I saw the guard towers as we drove up, I started to cry. So sad.







Originally served as a concentration camp for political prisoners. It was the model for other camps. It was primarily a “work camp”. But many thousands of people died there.



The entrance through the guard house. “Work sets you free”

Guard tower

The building where the exhibits are housed.



Recreation of one of the barracks


Rows and rows of foundations where the old barracks were



Sculpture by Nandor Glid, depicting fence posts, barbed wire and human skeletons.


Urn with the ashes of an unknown prisoner

Debbielynn

Afterwards, we checked into our hotel at the airport for a 7:15 am flight home. We looked up the surrounding area and found the nearby town of Freising. We chose a restaurant and had dinner and then an early night. Little did we know that we would get a text shortly after midnight that told us our flight from Munich to Healthrow in London was canceled. Oh, no. We were stunned!

We looked up a nearby town , Freising, and restaurants and ate here in the outside beer garden.


https://weissbraeu-huber.de/en/

George had roast pork with a beer gravy and I had Kasespätzle. We’ve had so much better. Restaurant was definitely overrated.



Roast pork with beer gravy.


Käsespätzle, one of my favorites, fancy macaroni and cheese. My cooking is much better!