I took a sleeper train from Paris to Munich and from Munich to Salzburg I took a regular train. The sleeper train was so weird and somewhat nice. My car was for 6 people and I had the bottom bunk which sounds like it would suck but I only had to share the car with one other person. Meaning I could push the bed above me up and have enough room to sit up. Since I've never been on a sleeper train I had no idea the sheet they gave you was like a sleeping bag so I had to ask the lady to help make my bed. :/ kind of embarassing but just being the only person it wasn't to bad. Had some decent zzzzs but kept waking up when we would stop to get gas or when we were moving to hear the clanking of the rail tracks.
When I got to Munich had 10 mins to get on my next train which luckily was right next to the train I departed. Although the trip was suppose to take 45 minutes it ended on being an hour and a half because the train on the next track parallel to us hit what I believe was a body.
There were 3 sheets held down with rocks and outside one of the sheets I saw an organ. Who knows if it was an accident or attempted suicide the whole train car made a collective aaaaa in horror.
Once I got to Salzburg I made it to my hostel all by myself!!! It made me miss Katie though because she was my map girl and got us from place to place. I got lost twice trying to get back to the hostel but I figured it out:). The hostel I stayed at was probably one of my favorites so far. It had amazing shower pressure to the point where you felt like you were at home, it was very clean, and it had sound of music pictures all over the hostel. They also play the movie every day which sadly I watched some of it because of the time I got in and when the sound of music tour started. Yes!!! I went on the sound of music tour where I saw the gazebo, the back of the house where they fall in the water and play outside, the street where the children are in the trees, and the church where they filmed the wedding scene. From afar we saw what the front of the house which is now a school of music and the Abbey but they couldn't film inside because the order didn't want them to. Also the house that was the back is now for Harvard students :p and the gazebo was on the house grounds but they moved it to a park. Overall the tour was good and the bus itself played the Sound of Music soundtrack.
When I got back wandered the city for awhile and went to the castle on top by gondela to get amazing views of the city. While wandering the city came across a street game of chess and street dancers who looked like they were doing more of an interpretive dance. I then wandered the streets looking for a place that has schnitzel. I decided I would have the Salzburg schnitzel and have the local grub since when will I ever have it again and Katie would try all the local food wherever we went; so i thought I'll do the same. It really wasn't bad it was like fried chicken breast with ham cheese bacon mushrooms and some sauce inside.
Then I returned to by hostel where I met Jayme, Jenna and an Aussie who I never got her name but we chatted a lot. Anyways that night all of us had a rough time sleeping because one of our roommates had the longest and loudest snore I ever heard. I seriously never new you could snore every breath for like 20 minutes.
The next morning I went to the salt mines with 4 other people from the
hostel: Connor, Ashely, Ariel, and Sophie while everyone else from our tour bus went to Eagles Nest which I had no idea was Hitlers hang out spot so I just asked what it was instead of vocalising that I thought it was a legit Eagles nest. Anyways the salt mines were awesome! The 5 of us all stuck together and would slide down the slides to the different parts of the mine. The slides themselves are like a long stick that dips (ok didn't mean to make that sound dirty) with 2 places for your feet and you just slide down. The salt mines themselves are one of the oldest working mines in the world. In the mine we came to what looked like a huge sheet of glass where below you could see the salt rock but in actuality it was water. So we took a little boat across to the other side and witnessed a " salt explosion" aka a light show that reflected in the water. Haha.
After the tour I went and visited Salzburg's most famous person, Mozart. I first started off in the family apartment where they lived when Mozart was in his teens. There you saw the pianos and organs he played on along with letters and sheet music he wrote. The museum also had things about Mozarts father who wrote a famous how to play the violin and had a musical background as well as Mozart's sister Nanner who back in the day received high praises for her musical gift; but obviously Mozart was a prodigy. He masted the violin and piano by the age of 6. By the age of 8 he wrote his first symphony and for 3/4 of his life he traveled all over the world with his father and sister and would preform in front of royalty. You would think this would being in a lot of money but most of the rime the Mozarts were payed in cigarette cases or match stick boxes which didn't translate to money.
After their apartment I went to Mozart's birth place where both he and his sister were born. His mother stayed there most of the time when they traveled a d sadly had 7 children with only Mozart and Nanner surviving.
Overall Salzburg was a beautiful city and 2 days was definitely the right amount of time to spend there. Now I'm on a train to Florence :D. I have to take 3 trains to get there but on the 1st one Jayme came with me since she wanted to visit Innsbruck??? All I could fell you is it's surrounded by more of the Swiss alps and I saw a Swarkosvki factory. Oh did you know that a little town outside Salzburg was where red bull was created/ started.
Til next time which will be WORLD CUP time!!! You all should be excited although I will be anti-American and root for England and Spain. June 12 people USA vs England will be an excellent game. I'll be with Jessie which I can't wait for and will probably be crazy as ever.
So excited and the idea that I only have a couple more weeks left makes me sad since I've been having so much fun. Wish I could explore/ be in Europe forever. ;);)(mumsy) Ive run into so many Aussies who are taking trips for like 4 months and some more. There is this bus that goes on a consistent route throughout Europe and is hop on hop off really cool idea.
Ok didn't mean to blabber on will talk to you from Italy.
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