Well I failed again at any timely blog posts, but have come up with another sea worth excuse for not pulling into port lately. It is for exactly that reason, as I have not taken refuge in the port of dear ol Norwich very few times in the last few weeks. I have been all sorts of places, but before I recount all such journeys to you, I must first finish conveying my journeys that happened back in January.
So after Munich, Becca and I hit the road, train actually, and headed to Salzberg, Austria. There we were set to meet up with my dear friend from high school Bud, and his girl friend Annika. It was a joyous reunion with all sorts of laughter and debauchery haha. Salzberg is a small, but very beautiful place. Being the home of Mozart, his face is basically on everything, including delicious balls of chocolate that had some magnificent filling inside, consisting of marzipan and something else. Salzberg has an awesome fortress that dominates the skyline, so we obviously all went to check it out. Now I'm not sure if the english audio tour just didn't translate right, or if they just really didn't check into many facts about the fortress because the dude narrating it to me did not have much to say. We'd be walking down a hallway and the audio man would say "This used to be a cannon balcony where the Salzberg battalion would defend the city from invaders... now it is a hallway. In the next room...". Seriously!?! First who's idea was it to turn a cannon balcony into an average hallway, and second, who decided we wanted to know that something rad like that was now just a hallway. Anyways, the top of the fortress was definitely worth it for the view. Besides being absolutely freezing up there, you really could see the entire surroundings, and it was absolutely beautiful seeing all the snowcapped mountains of Austria.
Our hostel was pretty rad, being that it played the Sound of Music on repeat everyday. Bad part was, we seemed to walk into the room at the same point in the movie... every day. I think it took the full four days before I got to the end, and only the dear Lord knows if I ever saw the beginning. However, I can more or less sing "So Long, Farewell", and "Edelweiss" word for word now. We met some great people in our hostel, and even ran into some guys from the Bay Area. It really is a small world after all... which leads me to my next post.
All in all, it was a great visit to Salzberg, and it was awesome to see Bud and meet Annika. As they headed off, Becca and I tracked down the sole Mexican food restaurant in Austria and then headed of for France the next morning.
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| The locals in the park were a bit underdressed. |
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| Mozart was everywhere. Plus we thought it was crazy this place almost spelled Becca's first and last name. |
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| Pegasus fountain they dance around in The Sound of Music. I asked Julie Andrews to show up but she was busy... |
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| These horses were smaller than big horses, bigger than mini horse, and definitely not donkeys. Still not sure what they were. |
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| That would be the Fortress and the All Knowing Gold Ball of Salzberg. |
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| You can always find a little bit of home somewhere... |
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| Mountains behind Salzberg. |
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| Salzberg via the Fortress roof. |
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| Anytime we saw these little bundled up babies we couldn't help but laugh. We named them Starfish Babies, they just sorta waddled around the whole time. But heck, they were definitely warm and stoked on life. |
I must apologize for the short amount of pictures, but I am desperately trying to catch up on blog post, so I promise to do a whirlwind photo tour of my year abroad at the end of the semester, which incredibly is only five weeks away. Time is beginning to fly my dear friends. Well, off we go to Paris... Disneyland Paris that is!
Wind in Our Sails,
The Pirate Crew
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