Salzburg

I tried to convince Bronwyn that alot of work went into setting up this blog site (It didn't really) and that she should be the main contributor as a result. Well... it's my turn to post again I guess. She saw straight through my sneakiness.


Our first stop in Austria was in the city of Salzburg (right). We only had two days here and the second would be taken up in our visit to Hallstatt so we really only had one day to check out the entire city. I was a bit grumpy because we got out of the hotel so late and the harsh sun was already in the sky and so our day didn't start off as nicely as we would have liked... but we soon cleaned our act up and began to enjoy the city. We were concerned that once we got to the ski resort we would be stuck with the clothes they had to offer so we wanted to get some cheap skiing clothes before getting ourselves into that position. Sadly, skiing clothes don't come cheap and we wasted alot of our day looking around for a good deal but not finding one.

We mostly ended up walking along the Salzach (the river there), but also found some time to browse a few local curio/antique shops and grab some mulled wine and Austrian bread at a Christmas market. Sadly we missed looking inside Mozarts birth house by a couple of minutes and didn't have time to take a trip up to the castle and look inside a few old buildings. Some of us were more sad than others though :)

After we got back from Hallstatt on our second day Bronwyn couldn't wait to get into her new ski clothes and pretend that she was on the slopes. Here she is. As she would find out later, you actually ski with your feet together most of the time.