From Vienna we caught the slow train to Salzburg. If you are in this region of Europe (including Germany) and traveling by train, check out the regional trains which take twice as long to get somewhere but are less than a sixth of the price. Again our hostel didn't have a kitchen so it was cold sandwiches for dinner. On our way back to the hostel there was a small court with several tents set up and from one of them we bought 2 thai spring rolls for a warm snack.
In the morning we had free breakfast at the hostel (score!) waiting for the rain and cold to let up. Eventually we headed out to see a little bit of the city, walking through bio-fest (a festival in the center market area), an amazing cemetery, Mozart's birth house, and a famous street which in my notes is called "G-something." For lunch we switched hostels and our second hostel had a kitchen which meant soup with bread!
The neat cemetery and G street
In the afternoon the sun peeked through a little bit and we headed up the non-castle hill (there are two hills in Salzburg, one has a castle and one doesn't). The views were amazing. We hiked 2 km to another lookout and the mountain started getting misty and cold and the path was a dead end and had to hike back out the way we came.
Mozart's birth house
Musical instruments made from bread
Dinner was an amazing chili we made in the hostel (amazing because it wasn't pasta and red sauce). We chatted with some Canadians and Aussies over dinner and then went to bed.
In the morning we caught the train to Munich.
The drinking water on the non-castle hill
Please excuse this post if something doesn't make sense. It was written while exhausted from a 36 hour transit from Helsinki to New Zealand.
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