Salzburg

Hey Guys,

Just got pointed out to us (thanks dad) that we have missed writing a blog about Salzburg...opps.

We had an interesting start to the morning, the alarm didn't go off and Phil woke up about 20 minutes before we were supposed to be meeting our tour group downstairs. So in a record time we showered, dressed, packed and checked out. We had 5 minutes to spare so we ran up the road to grab some snack food to pass as breakfast (seeing as we had missed our complimentary one in the hotel). Not a very good idea - while we were away the tour bus came & went.

After unsuccessfully trying to call the company Nicole finally got some help from the hotel receptionist and we were picked up about 10 minutes later ... and it turned out to be a very good mistake- rather than being on a coach bus for the tour with 35 other people we got a mini van tour with 5 others and a great tour guide who was very passionate about the area and the movie :)

We got to see a heap of sights from the movie and learnt quite a few bits of trivia. The tour follows the path between the movie sights but also gives history on the area so we found that part really interesting too.

The tour was enhanced (well for Sound of Music fans) by our guide who had an incredible singing voice and broke out into song on many occasions. Mum Crouch you would have loved this tour and she would have loved you because none of our group would join in as we were even more embarrassed by our abilities after listening to her.

Salzburg really impressed us - the scenery was the most amazing that we have seen (and we have seen some impressive stuff on the trek around). The pictures pretty much say everything because words can't describe it (and keep in mind that the pics aren't the best because it was raining/overcast most of the day). We recommend that everyone who hasn't seen the area make the trip over to see it for themselves :)

When we were done with the tour we headed to the train station to get the train to Munich and you've got the blog updates from there :)

And now we must run to get our train to Berlin....