Today was a palace day but first we had washing to do (boring!). With so many palaces from the Hapsburg empire to explore in Vienna we thought we would visit them all in one go. The first, Schloss Schonbrunn, was the largest with over 1,400 rooms & massive gardens with water fountains & decorative flower beds over a couple of acres. By the time we had wandered through the different areas of the gardens we weren't very motivated to see more opulent rooms i...

After a few early starts we treated ourselves to a sleep in this morning before setting off on foot into the centre of Vienna. Being a Sunday most places were closed so once we had passed the Hofburg we found a Turkish restaurant for a pizza lunch/late breakfast. Still sans coffee I lowered myself to Starbucks although after a long wait & a weak coffee it really didn't change my opinion of them. We stopped by the tourist info although it was pretty sparse on ...

We still had until noon to use our Salzburg card so we were up early ish for another breakfast with a view before taking the bus into town to firstly see the Residenz of the archbishops right next to the square towering cathedral. Once again it was room after room of opulence & another long winded audio guide. The most interesting thing was the balustrade on the double stairs in the main hall had been tuned so that they could be played like chimes. After the...

Today we had a big day planned so lucky we had a hearty breakfast buffet on the top floor of the Ramada overlooking Salzburg to get us going. We bought our 24hr Salzburg Card for €26 & planned to get as much value out of it as possible! Our first stop was the furtherest from town as we were heading up the 1700metre high Untersberg peak on the very steep cable car. There was a few white knuckle moments as the cable car ascended up beside sheer cliffs & j...

We weren't in any rush this morning so ended up getting the train at 11.27 to Salzburg arriving about 1pm. We couldn't check in straight away even if we had splashed out a little on the Ramada so we went for a wander for some lunch before returning to check in at 3pm. We were going to get the Salzburg card & head out to the brewery but we weren't sure the bus would get us there for the last tour at 4pm so instead we crossed the river & climbed up to the A...