Salzburg

On Wednesday, 23. Sept, the language students (all 4 of us Americans and our Italian teacher-in-training) went to Salzburg. It was pretty much a full day event: fortunately, Salzburg is about 1.5 hr away by train.

We checked out a castle and fountains of Hellbrunn--and got wet in the process. Next, we went to the center and up to the fortress overlooking Salzburg. After having our fill of the fortress (and anything else educational, really), we decided to go back to the center and just go around (window) shopping.

Two guys (Ray and Clay) decided to go back to Hellbrunn and see the gazebo from "Sound of Music" (we didn't see it when we were there and had to leave to leave quite soon). While those 2 guys did that, The other 2 (Fiammetta and Brent) and I went downtown. Brent and I got to check out the house where Mozart was born. I would've gone to the house where he lived (just at the other side of the river) only I was too tired and hungry to go.

At the appointed time, we took a bus back to the train station and ate at a kebab. After a nice change from sandwiches, we boarded our train and got back to school in time for Abendessen (evening meal = supper/dinner).

Alright, enough narrative, let's see the pictures:

The sign is pretty self-explanatory.

Brent taking on the new kind of "map": the kind that gives the "You are here" sign a more literal meaning.

Some of the statues in the garden. A great candidate for playing with the different settings.

I'm on a garden in the middle of a pond.

And to think there were people seated on some of those benches. . .

Ah, now to the various fountains.

An interesting little town that actually does something.

Our guide. He was an evil person. Here he is, in the act, of turning on the water at the perfect times when his group was passing by.

Ok, now back to the city. Does this place look familiar?

Pegasus flying towards the fortress.

Crossing the river that divides the New city from the Old city.

There was some sort of fair going on that weekend (missed what is was about) and we couldn't resist this one ride:

It was so fun (and so hard to get the shot)!

Up on the top of the fortress, over looking the city.

A slightly wider view of Salzburg.

It was at the exit. I can be ADD at times.


Oh yeah, there was a street artist who was selling this kind of painting. They looked really nice! Too bad I don't have the money for it. Oh well, that's where the next-best-thing comes in: take a picture of it!