A Day in Salzburg

Today was a BUSY day! We walked, we biked, we rode the bus AND the train. We got lost.......and we found our way again :)

Jet-lag is not for the sissies. I tried to sleep.....really, really tried. But my body was done with what it considered a "nap" and I woke up at 3am. I was finally able to fall asleep again around 5am but getting up in the morning was still brutal. Steve does NOT have this problem. He seams to have a built in world time-zone adjuster. He went to sleep around 11pm and woke up at 9am. Well.....I had to help him wake up :) As compensation, our hotel had an excellent and authentic Austrian breakfast. With yummy breads, meats, cheeses, pastries and soft boiled eggs. The kind of breakfast that our dear friend Andreas would definitely approve of! :)

 

After breakfast we packed up, left our suitcases in the hotel storage room and went out to explore more Salzburg. It was a beautiful, sunny morning and we decided to rent bikes to go to the Hellbrunn Palace. Salzburg is definitely a biker friendly city and there are bikes EVERYWHERE!!

For tourists there are bike rental places at different points in the city. We chose one of those to get our bikes. Bike rental is cheap, only 1E to 4E for the whole day. BUT if you loose the bike they will charge you 600E!!! Yikes!!

Hellbrunn Palace was a summer residence of cardinal Marcus Siticus and it is famous for it's trick fountains. The cardinal had quite a sense of humor (not to mention a large bank account) and devised a very tricky and elaborate way of getting his guests wet!

Water comes out of all sorts of surprising places like those antlers.

Then we went up to the city castle, which had an amazing view of the surrounding area! We had a very nice dinner in a restaurant at the top.

 

 

So much more we could say, and show, but there is also lots to see - and the ipad program we are using to create these entries is being rather difficult - slows down the blogging process :-/

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