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Fraueninsel and Family
... in the middle of the Chiemsee. I'm obsessed with Christmas markets. I can't get enough of them (and am even going to another one tonight). It had always been a wish of mine to visit the Chiemsee in winter time because I always go there in the summer time and swim in the lake. It looked as I had always pictured it as we took the ferry to the island with the Alps towering over the water covered in snow. On the lake there is also the ...
Sunday ..Sunny Salzburg ...
... atop their final resting places are in sinc with the style of this city. Also within the church grounds are the Catacombs carved into the rock wall .. said to be from early Christian days (c.a. 482..) , they have two internal chapels high in the wall reached by narrow steep steps.. apart from the religious importance the view from within is another bonus.
From anyview point this city is a ...
So Salzburg ...Snow Snow & more snow
... on dark items. The thousands..yes, thousands of people crowding the old city streets and walkways didn't seem to mind either..Enticed by more Xmas markets, shops, restaurants and the famous buildings..they were happy to do a slow shoe/ snow shuffle at times. Sooo many Xmas decoration shops, Austrian wares and the famous Mozart Chocolate's everywhere. Salzburg is the birth place of Mozart and he is "touted" ...
Back to Austria...
... ready. Would be awesome to be here when they are all open.
Our adventures here started with the Salzburg Castle. This was the first castle that really showed a military style architecture, where everything that was built, was purely for defense and attack. Being right on the hill top, the castle had a panoramic view of the whole of Salzburg, making this a very hard Castle to attack i would imagine. Everything was built of stone, there were heaps ...
Salzburg
... other signs. We passed by Mozart’s birthplace but didn’t go in as our book had recommended his residence as a more interesting place to visit.
We then headed uphill to the fortress to wander the grounds, but found that you were no longer allowed to see the ground for free. Since we didn’t want to see the whole fortress and all the exhibits we headed back down to the abbey where they filmed the SOM scenes in the courtyard where ...
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