Trips, Pics, and Tales

Today Alex and I leave Salzburg for Budapest! Our river cruise will be departing from there, so that's our next stop! We enjoyed breakfast at the hotel and our driver, Michael, was right on time. He picked us up at 9 am, and we had about a 5 hour drive to go. We thought about taking a train, but decided that by the time we took taxis from the hotel to the train station, took the train, and then another taxi from the train station to our hotel in Budapest, that door to door service of a driver would work out much better. Especially since we had luggage with us!  It was a cloudy and somewhat rainy morning, so spending it in the car was just as well! Our driver was great. He talked just enough. He told us some great history and interesting stories about his life growing up in Czechoslovakia before it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He told us about life under communist rule and how times were different when you couldn't just drive from one country to the other. Cros...

Today was our last day in Salzburg before we moved on to our next destination...we were getting closer to boarding our river cruise, but still had some sightseeing to do here!  We started the day by heading back into the Old Town, crossing over the Locks Bridge... Our next stop was another one that we could use from our Salzburg Card, Mozart's Birthplace! Another museum where other than in the entrance, no photos were allowed, so here is the kitchen.... And a view from one of the hallways And that's about all you get to see!  But this was a pretty interesting museum. This one had much more about Mozart's life and his original compositions and letters as well as his instruments.  It was really very fascinating!  Afterward we walked through town a bit and did some souvenir shopping Then we made our way back over to the other side of the bridge for our afternoon tour! This afternoon we were going on a tour to Hallstatt, in the Lakes a...