When we first got to Salzburg, we went to a café for morning tea. We all had some pastry and a hot drink. I had a pastry, which was like a croissant but in a snail-shell like shape with chocolate poured over it. Also a lot of drinks in Europe like hot chocolate come mit schlagen (or with cream).
We then headed over to the castle, which had been the residence of the town's prince/archbishop from 1100 to the 1800s, passing through the council chamber gardens, which were all white. At a fountain there Gemma went one better than Minh when she, in the process of breaking the ice covering the water of the fountain, submerged the whole of her right leg into the water (she was fine afterwards).
The castle was amazing! We did a small tour of one of the battlements and a tower (which was slightly under our expectations). We then had a late lunch in a restaurant in the castle grounds and went to visit a museum inside the keep. There were displays of many different artefacts from medieval times on the ground floor. When we went upstairs we saw the prince/archbishops rooms. One of them (named the gold room) had really ornate walls, which had gold inlay on them. There was also a tapestry with gold thread in the room when it was used as a residence but had since rotted away. There was also, weirdly, a whole part of the museum dedicated to weaponry from the 1900 to WWII.
We didn't have any time to see more after this, as we had to go and catch a train back to Altmunster. Tomorrow we are going to Hallstatt, another town that profited greatly from the salt trade. There is a museum of the history of the area from the Bronze Age to modern times.
B.T.W. How are everyone's holidays so far?
P.S. We found this weird vegetable that in a local supermarket. It tastes a lot like a broccoli and looks a bit like one too, but it is quite unusual.
That's all ONE Vegetable?!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a pile of vegetables, what is it called?
Did you get a photo of Gemma in the fountain, we can compare it with Minh's photo! :)
Holidays are good, today (thursday), Tom invited friends to his house to help dig up his front yard in preparation for lawn etc. We were all rewarded with pizza and drinks for lunch! :)
Oh yeah, on presentation night, you were awarded with yet another award, an "Australian Defence Force Leadership and Teamwork Award", or something along those lines, there were only three recipients, and each was given a nice little speech on how much you deserved the awards, and what you'd done to recieve them, so Well done on that! :)
Keep having fun
Alexander