National costume is quite common in Salzburg. The picture shows a modernised version of national costume.
I had a very uneventful journey here flying to Munich and then taking the train to Salzburg, apart from getting off the train in the wrong country. I mistook the destination board for the station name and thought I was already in Salzburg when in fact I was still in Germany. So I had to ask a passerby the stupid question ‘Which country am I in?’. Fortunately the train was still in the station so I could get back on for the extra 7 minutes it took to get to Salzburg. Well it serves me right for using the stereotype that German trains are never late!
Salzburg seems very attractive and the weather has been wonderful but since we both sleep and work in the hotel I have not as yet seen too much of it. However I can vouch for the fact that the cakes are wonderful.
Yesterday we had dinner in the restaurant in the castle which dominates the town. The way up was a funicular which seems to go at the speed of sound. Unfortunately we lowered the tone by going through the streets singing songs from ‘The Sound of Music’ which apparantly Germans and Austrians are not very familiar with.
In all the excitement, Nicole, our Austrian host, forgot her keys… somewhere, she wasn’t quite sure where so this ended with a reconnaissance party going back to her, by now, locked premises where one of us climbed over the wall so we could have access to her car where she thought her house keys might be. They weren’t and so Nicole ended up sharing a room in the hotel with one of us until she could get into her office the next day where, fortunately, the keys were lying on her desk and she could finally get home to feed her rabbit.
Today Saturday was the first day that I could get to see Salzburg in the daylight. It is very attractive and highly recommended for a city break.