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Snowflakes that stay on your nose and eyelashes!!!
Another big travel day setting off from Freiburg just after 9am. Given current snowy weather conditions we have taken our relatives advice and stayed on major roads while making our way from Germany to Austria. Therefore we decided to overnight in Salzburg instead of Innsbruck.
Our journey began slowly thanks to trucks on the lesser roads and …
Sunday ..Sunny Salzburg ...
... soo much history before us...
Up and down the maze of narrow streets one wanders through the ornate black iron gates of St. Peter's Cemetery
St. Peter's Cemetery with its unique ambiance is one of the oldest and most beautiful cemeteries in the world. It is the final resting place for a number of famous loca lpersonalities, artists, scholars and businessmen... Mozarts sister being one. The orante ...
So Salzburg ...Snow Snow & more snow
... their branches tipped white, the river Salzach winding through the town..Sheer picture perfect!! The veil of snow hiding the distant mountains of Untersberg / Berchtesgaden.. ( that separate Austria and Germany) add to the mystique.
The Castle itself is quite imposing with its stark white exterior walls, one can tour the inner rooms (gallery, torture chamber, watchtower, battlements etc) An audio commentary guides ...
Hallstatt
... Austria still seems to allow smoking indoors as opposed to neighbouring countries like Germany and Switzerland, as far as we can tell. So we went across the square and we were glad that we had been forced to switch. Megs found an absolutely delicious apfel strudel, served with whipped cream and vanilla custard sauce and I had a fancy cappuccino with whipped cream and shaved chocolate. This was the best apfel strudel that she’d had so far and would be the one ...
Salzburg
... bells of various sizes. We then walked over in front of the church where there was a statue of Mary. It was also about to be restored in some way and they were putting glass up all around it. Luckily it wasn't completely covered yet! We backed up to under an archway and were able to see her being crowned by the angels which were on the church behind. We came back later and she was completely covered up so we got there just in time.
We headed in to ...