Salzburg

We catch the overnight train from Rome to Salzburg, changing at Kufstein at 5.30 am. Hardly anyone at the station and slightly on the cool side, which is a change from the heat in Italy.

Arriving a Salzburg at 7.00 am. The place was dead. We had time to kill as we had booked the Sound of Music tour at 2.00 pm. Found somewhere for coffee, then set about exploring the city. Salzburg is a city full of character, culture and old architecture. After having been in and out of various craft shops we decided to go up the cable car to the fortress at the top of what can be described as a massive rock. Now the temperature was getting seriously hot. The cable car had been there since 1898 (although has been replaced several time over the years) the first cable car was water driven, today its electric.

The gardens and mansion in the top 3 photos was, apparently, once owned by the local Catholic Archbishop who had 15 children with a mistress. :O

Fortress on the rock, you get to by cable car. Has a torture chamber.

View from the fortress

Sound of Music tour.

Left Salzburg early this morning for Leipzig, changing at Munich (today we see it in daylight it was at night when we went to Venice to Zurich) Colditz tomorrow with a WW2 historian.