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Travel Blogs from Salzburg
Sunday ..Sunny Salzburg ...
What's that through the window this morning? Blue skies! Not time to shed the coats though.. still a chilly - 8 at 8am...Forecast is for top of -1 so that is do-able!!
Off to explore more of the "old town".. so with map & suggested look at points, best get walking.. The great thing about Salzburg is that both sides of the Salzach river , everything a tourist wants to see is within walking distance.. The height ...
So Salzburg ...Snow Snow & more snow
Back on the train for a 2:45 hour trip to Salzburg..approx 290 kms south/ west of Vienna..thank heavens for the heated compartments again as the temp dropped to minus seven! Once again as day dawned the snow showed it's thickness.. and did not let up in Salzburg all day. The usual wander/ amble to the chosen accommodation was replaced by taxi....
Heavy snow falls had everything encased , the snowflake design was ...
Hallstatt
... we were at Charnel house, which has existed since the 12th century.
It is crammed with 1200 skulls about half of which are elaborately painted and marked with the family name and the date of death. The last skull to be placed here was in 1995 on special request. They don't get many requests from people to have their remains placed in the Charnel house as cremations have become much more popular. Back in the day, the charnel house was created out ...
Salzburg
Our campsite was a short walk from the bus stop which took us in to the centre of town. There was a light misty rain which made everything rather grey, but we set off on our walking tour anyways. We started off in a square with a statue of Mozart. A short walk away was a much larger square with a huge fountain that was being power-washed. We also saw lots of horse carriages lined up waiting to take tourists around town. We also got to see the neat ...
Berchtesgaden
... as most of the lake was still socked in with fog.
After returning to the campsite along the same path, we drove off to our next site, the nearby Nazi Documentation center in Berchtesgaden. They had built a documentation center here because it was the site of Hitler’s retreat, the infamous, “Eagle’s Nest”. Hitler was Austrian by birth and had selected this region in Austria for its scenic beauty to be ...
Location
Other places to stay in Salzburg
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Tenniscamp Bergheim
Plainbachstrasse 11-15, Salzburg | Hotel -
Haus Ballwein
Moosstrasse 69 a, Salzburg | Hotel -
Hinterbruhl
Schanzlgasse 12, Salzburg | Hotelfrom $65 -
Gasthof Auerhahn
Bahnhofstrasse 15, Salzburg | Hotelfrom $98 -
Pension Elisabeth
Vogelwederstrasse 52, Salzburg | 1 star hotelfrom $67 -
Haus Christine
Panoramaweg 3, Salzburg | Hotelfrom $58
