After spending a very cultured evening last night in Saltburg, we are now back in Germany.
We left Prague 5 days ago (I think) to Vienna. Vienna was… well… honestly… disappointing. It didn’t help that we were there on Saturday/Sunday consequentally nothing, and I mean NOTHING, was open and we were coming off of an awesome experience in Prague. Don’t get me wrong, Vienna is a lovely city with amazing buildings, palaces, the Danube, Freud’s house… but the hostel was sub-standard and nothing was open so there wasn’t much to see or do. After 2 nights (one day), we took off to Salzburg which is much cooler. There is a better vibe to Salzburg – more like Victoria – with narrow, treelined streets (Cook St Village type), winding roads, nice river through town, mountains, Mozart… and a cool fortress on a clifftop above town (Ok, Victoria doesn’t have the last 2, but it has everything else). We wandered around town and last night treated ourselves to dinner at the fortress followed by a concert. And it was not just any dinner – 4 fantastic courses of dinner! The concert was just 3 pieces- the first 2 were by Mozart (a string quartet and a piano quartet) and the last was a Dvorak string quartet. For those of you who want more details, I have the programme…!
So now we’ve headed back to Germany for 5 days or so. This time we are in the south. We arrived in Munich today. Oktoberfest ended yesterday and we have seen surprisinly few signs of it except tacky souviners everywhere. Not sure how they took down the rides and beer tents in less than 12 hours, but apparently they have accomplished it. While we are here we plan to head out to Fussen to see the crazy prince’s castle Disney based Cinderella’s on and then, Saturday, its off to Freiburg to see Liz!