Dee & Frankie visit Salzburg

Frankie and I spent the weekend in Salzburg. It may seem like a random location for a girl's trip and an early celebration of her 21st birthday (so soon!), but there was a lot to do and see! It is a gorgeous city.


We took a 3:30 am bus to the airport to catch our early morning flight on Friday and ended up getting into our hotel in Salzberg around 10am. We had a "sound of music" themed room and the movie was showing on the TV 24 hours a day - ha. We wasted no time, got ready and started to explore! Our hotel was a 10 min walk to the "old town" so we went to the Getriedegasse, the main shopping street, and got some new cute shoes and tops. We walked up the River Salzach, to the Mirabell gardens (where they shot the "do re mi" song - recognize it from the pic?), through the market, and headed up to the Festung Hohensalzburg (literally "High Salzburg Fortress" in German). You can see the fortress in the background of the pic on the left.

We went to dinner and a Mozart concert that took place in the fortress that night. Our view was amazing - overlooking the Untersburg mountain in the Alps. Dinner was delicious, except for the "beef in aspic" that came as a starter. We took a picture - it was essentially beef flavored jello with veggies and meat in it. We at least tasted it (mom, you'd be proud). The room where the concert was held was an old banquet room in the fortress that overlooked the city. And the music was amazing.

The next day we woke up early and went to see Mozart's birthplace and residence. It was interesting to learn that he was composing at the age of five, he spent over 10 years of his life touring Europe and that he disliked Salzburg very much! That afternoon we went on the Sound of Music tour - what we had been waiting for! Such a fun time. We sang to the soundtrack in the bus, learned all facts about the movie and the actual Von Trapp Family story, and re-enacted all our favorite scenes at all the locations!

That night we had dinner and drinks in the Augustinerbräu beer cellar, which is a HUGE beer cellar in the basement of a church. We could barely find it! No one spoke english, so we ended up ordering food that we had no idea what it was. Delicious though (much better than the beef jello). And drank a lot of beer, of course. Afterwards we went to a bar on the rooftop of a trendy hotel overlooking the "old town" and had some girly drinks...the perfect ending to our trip!