FUN-travel: Salzburg, Austria – Full Day 1
September 28, 2013 by Susan Clarke
Day 9 – Tuesday, September 24 – Salzburg, Austria – Full Day 1 – overcast clouds clear to full sun – warm & 70
What I LIKE
Mozart’s Birthplace
- 8:30 – wake up – best night sleep so far
- memory foam mattress
- feels more like a B &B than a hotel
- hot coffee on the patio
- 10:00 – walk to Hop on Hop off bus near hotel
- only takes 15 min walk
- 10:25 pick up – runs every 30 mins
City View With Fortress
- OMG – sore muscles from walk yesterday (from coming down the steep hill)
- 1st stop – Mozart’s birthplace home – in heart of Salzburg – lots of tours – pass on going in
- 2nd stop – Starbuck’s – big cappuccino & hot breakfast sandwich on corner
- 3rd stop – Leopoldskron Palace – on small lake w/nice gardens outside of town
- 4th stop – Hellbrunn Palace – one of oldest Baroque gardens in Europe – some Sound of Music scenes filmed here – gazebo used for “16 going on 17” song relocated here too
- *12:58 – bus is a no show
- 1:50 – lunch @ trattoria donomi – has trip advisor sign
- what else but pizza w/ham, salami, mushrooms & hot peppers – 2 pints of beer – $17 Euro
- walk up to Nonnberg Abbey where Maria was nun
- **walk over to hop on bus stop
- 24 hr pass gets us free city bus too
- Mirabell Palace Gardens – huge w/straight shot to fortress on top of hill
Leopoldskron Palace
- 3:45 – Mozart’s 2nd home – a museum but don’t get to see it as a home w/personal items
Hellbrunn Palace
- 4:30 – city bus back to hotel
- R & R in room
- 8:00 – dinner @ Steinlechner local restaurant just around corner – Caesar salad (dressing not!) & mixed grill plate w/turkey, pork, beef, sausage & homemade potato chips – Umathum 2010 Baideboden (cab) – $89 US
- 1st time ever! wine has glass cork – my souvenir
What I DON’T LIKE
- *have to wait 30 mins for next on
- **another no show
- wish I would have taken Rick Steve’s recommendation on the SOM (Sound of Music tour) I totally spaced his book in the car!
FUN-fact – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 and spent the first 16 years here in a small apartment where he wrote most of his boy-genius works. When he was 17 they moved to a much larger apartment just across the bridge where the museum is. He composed over 600 works with Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro still operatic mainstays today.
SOM Gazebo