Munich Part IV - Salzburg

On Monday, we went to Salzburg. We got a Brayen pass that allowed us to travel anywhere in the state for a whole day for 27 Euros. We had to wait until 9am to use it though so we walked around the English Garden a little bit and came back to the Hauptbahnhof to catch the train the Salzburg. It was a 2 hour train ride and there were lots of other people going. People travel a lot in Germany. Well, I think the people across from us were Italian and we saw a lot of Spanish tourists around too.

The Salzburg Hauptbahnhof is really old. We ate at a nearby café after getting off since we were both hungry. I got a pasta dish along with ice cream coffee. Both very good. We got a little guidebook with a map and started walking around the city. The old city is actually across the river from the train station. We walked around a really nice garden and saw Mozart’s birthplace before crossing over to the other side.

It wanted to rain for a while but never started pouring. We walked around some churches, an outdoor market, found the famous little street with cute street signs, and finally found another Residenz (not sure whose it is but it looked nice from the outside). There is a castle on top of a hill but it cost 10 Euros to take a lift. This included the admissions to the castle. We decided to just walk up since it wasn’t that far. But when we got there, it turns out that we had to buy a 7 Euro ticket to go inside, which included the lift to go down. We couldn’t even walk around the castle. I didn’t want to see the inside of the castle anyhow but we wanted to walk around the top and get a nice view of Salzburg.

After this we wanted to take a bus to see the Sound of Music pavilion. We got on the wrong bus so it took us like 2 hours to get there. It’s about 30 minutes away by bus. We got off at the wrong stop but the bus driver was kind enough to let us back on. So after getting lost a lot, we got there and saw the pavilion. Not very amazing given all the effort we put into finding the place. The rest of the park is very nice though. We didn’t have time to explore much since we wanted to catch the train that leaves Salzburg at 9:18pm, bringing us back to Munich at around 11pm. We got some food at a Burger King. I got a milkshake and some onion rings. People don’t eat onion rings much here. You can’t get it with a value meal and they had to fry mine especially for me. The onions weren’t very fresh, a bit mushy.