Argh, bad weather is the bane of my existence. Well actually we have had very good weather until we got to Salzburg. Once again I would like to reiterate that Austria is about two things, old music and "The Sound of Music" and Salzburg has both things in spades. What it also has on spades is rain apparently as it teemed down all day. Salzburg was just a lunch stop for us today, but wifey and I decided to do an optional tour before we had lunch and we (she) weren'...

Today we went into the old centre of Vienna and man what a pretty city. The buildings are simple and beautiful and the things that are accentuated are done in a lovely baroque style. We went to both the summer and winter palaces of the Hapsburg family, the ruling family of Austria for over 300 years. The last Hapsburg left the throne in 1918 after WWI and since then Austria has been a democracy. The winter palace was the main residence of the family and covers 10...

Today the hills came alive with the sound of music. That's right folks, we've entered Austria. First of all I have to say that Italy is brilliant, you should all go there and go now. Come on, are you booking tickets yet? Sally and I have fallen in love with the place, the history, the art, the wine, the food and even the manic death wish driving. If we knew Italian we would probably live here, but since we don't you get to keep us you lucky ducks. But now onto ou...