Salzburg Saga

We had a fun week in Malmo Sweden. It had snowed a little every day. When we first visited Malmo in November, we were surprised that there was no snow. When you think of Sweden, you naturally think of a land white with snow, but NO! they told us that they only get a day or two of snow per year... much like Dallas. So this is the most snow they've ever seen. One of my co-workers who is from a snowy part of the U.S. made the comment "I can't believe they don't keep their sidewalks shoveled!" I laughed and retorted, "Maybe because no one OWNS a shovel."

Anywho, on Saturday we returned to Germany. And once again, we were rewarded with a Mercedes rental car. It's so nice to be working in Germany. Here's our sweet car.


We went and checked out another of King Ludwig's palaces, Nymphenburg, in Munich before heading home. I didn't have my camera, so no pics. Sorry! I should have had my camera in Malmo too, because all that snow covering the frozen canals and the bridges over them were beautiful!

On Sunday, we headed to Salzburg, Austria. It's only about a 3 hour drive. As we passed through Munich, I managed to get a pic of one of my favorite road signs. Cars are hitting each other, and what I can only assume is blood or something is coming out. The better sign is of two trucks crashing and it's actually red.


Salzburg was pretty. We walked along the river and saw cool parks full of statues and beautiful buildings.



We saw the house where Mozart lived and the Mozart museum. But we didn't visit it today, because we wanted to get to this:

Hohensalzburg Fortress - a cool castle type structure up on a bluff overlooking the city. It has cliffs all around, and we couldn't figure out how to get up there after a couple of loops around it and the city. That's what we get for not checking it out more thoroughly on the internet before taking off on our adventure. We only knew it closed at 5pm and it was already like 3:30. This is also a result of being so used to accessing the Internet from anywhere on our iPhones back in America, when we can't do that here in Europe. At least not without it costing like $20 per MB.

We'd seen a lift for Mönchburg, and we found a place to park and tried to walk there, but got lost. And it turned out that was a different bluff anyway. Darn these short winter days where everything closes earlier! We gave up and headed back home. We'd still enjoyed our adventure around the city and the drive across the wintercrusted Bavarian countryside.

On a side note, during our walk through Salzburg, Marty needed a restroom break, and the German I'm learning came in handy. We walking into a gas station and I was able to ask for the "Schlüssel für Toilette". Hehe