Forth Day in Salzburg, Austria

Day (4):

Today We left Vienna and headed to Salzburg, We really liked their, At 6:00 AM we woke up and packed our bags and had breakfast and checked out, for the hotel they took 396.50 euro for the reservation and our net registration. We took the train in U6 Underground and headed to the main train station, we already booked our ticked by the Eurail Company since we were in Kuwait so we had no problems just hop on the train you want without any pre-procedures I would really recommend these tickets and it is not that expensive when you book at the economy class.

Figure(1): In the Train Station

The departure time was 8:20AM and the arrival was 10:59 AM during that time we were watching the classical movie “ The Sound of Music “ it really gave us a sense to the place, we couldn’t finish it though because we were already there. There are no trains in Salzburg because it is a small city and much quite than Vienna, we had a little time until we found our right bus to reach the hotel it was two stops from the train and bus station until we reached our hotel then we had to walk nearly 200 meter until we reached the hotel, from the outside it looks like a  small yellow house so we were afraid that the room would be small but when we entered our room it was double the size of our Vienna room with a LCD TV the bed was very wide so as the bathroom. So we had some rest to continue with our day “ No time to waste”. 

Figure(2): Our Room

  We took a brief look at some of the sightseeing locations by the web “ the internet is much cheaper here 5 euro per day but it is not that fast like Vienna but it really do the work “ and we settled that we visit the famous Fortress of Salzburg as it closes at 7 PM. But before that we were hungry so walked to the nearest restaurant. It was such a small restaurant but the lady who worked there is really honest in her job, blinded by our hunger we ordered much food that we decided if we couldn’t finish it we will take it with us, the lady kindly suggested to us less food because she knew our situation so we took her advice and surprisingly she was right!! It was just the right portion for us. She was so kind she didn’t care if it would bring her more money if we ordered more, and the food was heavenly delicious a salmon fish fillet and a vegetable burger for 20.90 euro.

Figure(3): Vegetable Burger

After that we went back to the hotel and figured out that the keys to Salzburg are a bicycle and Salzburg card. We rented a bike  for 12 euro per person for 1 day and bought the Salzburg card for 38 euro per card. This card literarily opens Salzburg for you to the widest it guarantee you free entrance to most of Salzburg tourist spot and sightseeing locations and free entrance to buses and all transportation and discounts on most of restaurants so I strongly suggest you buy it when you come. After everything is settled we decided the road we will go through to reach the Fortress and began our biking journey. 

Figure(4): Our Bikes

Biking is the most wonderful experience you will ever have in your life everybody is biking so you will feel comfortable and feel like you own the road LOL. In the way we faced many interesting spots like the great river of Salzburg and some horse shaped fountains and we entered a car-free zone where you really can own the road and we took a tour around by ourselves until we found the entrance. The fortress is way high above the ground and you can’t climb it to reach it so they designed a system of trains to get you there without breaking a sweat, just show them your Salzburg card and enter the train. It was really a fun experience to witness and entered the fortress.

Figure(5): The fortress

To me it looked like an old town with all its facilities “ churches, cafés, houses and shops “ but unfortunately there was no tour guide what so ever so you had to explore the place for yourself so I couldn’t sense the historical value of the place just it was built in the 14^th Century and it was really good. I would recommend this tour because the view from up there, it was really magical I felt like staying like that for hours everywhere you look you see a new view of Salzburg and the mountains surrounding it, it was like Julie Andrews song “ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music”. I really sang this song up there LOL.

Figure(6): The City of Salzburg

We took a look around and bought ice cream from the café for 1.10 euro each and then ended our tour and went back to the train to get down the mountains, it was kinda raining when we reached down so we took our bicycles in a hurry and wanted to head straight back to the hotel but we missed our was several times until we were in the right track again. I would strongly recommend you keep a GPS device near you always because you will really need it especially here because all streets look the same a d it is so easy to get lost. At 7:30 PM we finally arrived the hotel and were so tired and couldn’t move a finger as we biked for 2 km going and returning so I jumped straight to bed and fell a sleep.

Figure(7): The Train that Takes you to the Fortress

 It’s 1:35 AM I woke up to write this diary to remember everything I went through this journey I am really enjoying my time here thanks to the good plans my husband is putting everything is moving smoothly and much easier than we thought. Tomorrow at 9:30 AM we have a tour where a bus will pick us.. this tour is the reason why I wanted to go to Austria in the first place, YEAH it’s the sound of music original tour where you get to visit all the sites and locations used to shoot this classical movie, so I should go back to sleep now.

That’s All for today, see you tomorrow.