Showing posts with label Salzburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salzburg. Show all posts

Friday, March 22, 2013

St. Peter's Cemetary, Salzburg

Not to go too the morbid side of things, but St. Peter's Cemetery and Catacombs is a cool place to visit.  The cemetery goes back to 1627 and is where the Von Trapp's hid in the sound of music. The old headstones and statues are all interesting and add the fact that it is built into the cliff that the Castle over looks makes it even more interesting.





Thursday, March 21, 2013

Salzburg Austria

We decided to take a long weekend to Salzburg since it is a nice and easy 5 and half hour train ride.  Well when we left there had been some snow in the area and that short train ride turned into a 13 hour train ride.  There was only one track working between Hungary and Vienna and the highway was closed as well.  It would have been nice to have known this at some point either before or during our during the trip but communicating these details was not a strength of the staff.  I can't complain too much, a group of people got on the train somewhere along the way in Hungary and they had been on a bus headed to Vienna for 20 hours before it decided to turn around and go back to Budapest.

Though it was a terrible trip there, Salzburg was worth it.  With the Salzach River flowing through, the Alps in the background, great food and one of the largest castles in Europe looking over the city it really is great place to visit.  It's also the birth place of Mozart and where the Sound of Music was filmed. More from Salzburg later.