Salzburg - Hallstatt

Hi Everyone! I've been instructed to fill you in on our Austria Germany trip! So, I'll start by filling you in on a day trip we took from Salzburg to Hallstatt. It's a little lakeside village southwest of Salzburg - it took us 3 hours to reach it by train. We were told about this village by the ballroom dancing teacher at Wolfson :) It was our first train ride through Austria and the scenery was so different with everything covered in powder-like snow. To reach the village you have to take a ferry from the train station across the lake. Before we hopped on the ferry, we wandered around the lake a bit, I think there's a walk all around the lake but the path was covered in snow. But look at this picture of the swan we took - I think it looks like a scene from a fairy tale. The village itself is very pretty, I can imagine it's absolutely beautiful in summer. Quite a few of the restuarants right on the lakeside were closed for the winter and in summer you can hire little row boats to go out on the lake. There is also a long walk to the top of the mountain above the village but everything was icy and cold. We actually found a sport shop that was having a big sale on last years ski clothes and ended up spending a lot of time kitting ourselves out for our skiing trip, which worked out because it was a bit too cold to be wondering around outside. So next up, photos of our new ski gear :)