Mercure Salzburg

... up escalator! Ask Judie someday!!  The train was super and the scenery was fantastic!  Chalets and green everywhere.  In Salzburg we left the train station and found Avis to get our rental car.  It is a Mercedes Benz!  A small ...

... functions as a sort of S bahn service in Salzburg's north, took us 1 stop out of the underground Hbf platform to Salzburg Itzling, where the Lokalbahn have their workshops and storage sidings. As we were unfamiliar with the system we didn't push the ...

... dinner, before finally checking into our hotel room and getting out of the heat, 35 degrees this afternoon.  Tomorrow we will have a further look around spectacular Salzburg before returning to Munchen for our second CityNightLine train to ...

... that the stop's timetable only listed "Sontag" instead of the usual "Sontag / Friertag" combo. Like all public transport in Salzburg, our route 25 "Autobus" (normal diesel bus, in this case a Merc Citaro, Bus of the Year 2007) service arrived perfectly ...

... I was keen to explore slightly older local history and the best place to start was with a visit to the fortress above Salzburg, the Festung Hohensalzburg. Despite the weather I managed to talk Jean 2 into, or perhaps trick her into, walking to the ...

... ). The train leaves promptly at 09:54 and we leave the snow capped peaks of the South Tyrol as we head for Salzburg. The scenery is still spectacular mountains, forest covered broken by jagged rock outcrops, castles and great lakes. There is arable ...

It's May Day after the exertions of the last few days we have a lie in. Shelagh had seen in her Salzburg book a transport museum out by the airport. So we are off the Tourist Information for direction. The lady informs us that it is a private museum and ...

... We find a cafe on the edge of the lake for beer/aperol and cake. After a walk around the village it’s the bus back to Salzburg. Tea is a curry at the Taj Mahal then back to the hotel for a nightcap. Back in the room we hear the rumble of thunder and ...

... shops there is no mention of the Eagles Nest (Hitler’s Bavarian retreat) which is only a few miles away. Many tour buses from Salzburg go there daily in the summer, now it is still above the snow line. We take the bus back to Salzburg have an ...

... the breakfast is €15/person. So I'm off to the Billa supermarket for croissants and orange juice. After breakfast armed with our Salzburg card we head out of the city to Hellbrunn, a 17th C palace. The palace is not large and incomplete but it has ...

... ;Eventually the bus made it to a town called Villach in Austria and we went across the street to the train station to go to Salzburg.  The train was running a little behind (which would have never happened in Japan) but when it showed up and we found ...

It's an early start, bus down the railway station where we have good breakfast in the Spar. I want to go up to the top of mountain by cable car. Shelagh get nervous on thick pile carpet. So I head up a mountain and Shelagh goes shopping. The mountain is ...

... ).  Just like in the last post, where I did not actually post from Linz, these are being written from my apartment in Salzburg.  I just say that I'm in these cities so that the little map pin shows you where I've been.  I still ...

After hitting up Melk we ended up spending the night in Salzburg again because of its proximity to Munich. We ended up spending most of the afternoon in Salzburg so by the time we get to Munich we are pretty beat. We grab some food at a Bavarian food hall ...

... não faz idéia do trabalho que foi pra chegar neste local. My friend GPS me mostrava que eram aproximadamente 2 horas de Salzburg até Munique, mas o problema é que alguém não o avisou que nosso hotel ficava na região de Munique. Pra quem conhece ...

... Berlin and I would definitely go back for the history, nightlife and beer but we have a train to catch. Next stop Munich to pick up the rental car and drive our way into Austria and Hungary. Salzburg the home of Mozart and the Van Trapp family is on ...

Sound of Music tour I'll be honest with you, this was the main reason I went to Salzburg. I'm a big fan of the movie, and the locations were so scenic that this tour was going to be a real highlight - Mich and her parents booked the same tour for ...

... we stopped at the BMW car muesum for a look. It was free and well worth looking at. Now we are on the way to Salzburg. This will be the shortest days drive, only 1.5hours. It rained and snowed most of the way from Munich to Salzburg. Arriving at ...