AUSTRIA - DAY 7 This morning we wandered around the old town and discovered the Mirabell Gardens. If you looked closely you could tell it was the fountain Julie Andrews and the Von Trapp children sing around in the Sound of Music. The gardens were beautiful and the girls had fun wandering down the paths surrounded by hedges. After that we entered Mozarts Wohnhaus (the house Mozart lived in between 1773 and 1780). It was interesting finding out that no one rea...

AUSTRIA - DAY 6 The day dawned bright and sunny (hooray) and we headed off early for our first stop. We were heading up yet another mountain to snow. We headed out of town to St Leonhard and boarded the cable car which took us up Untersberg Mountain to the summit at 1853 metres. Snowball fights were the order of the day and we got thoroughly wet with snowballs flying left and right from all directions. The weather was beautiful, blue skies and sunny weather. ...

AUSTRIA - DAY 5 Another wet miserable day but we ventured forth in spite of the weather. This morning we headed to Stiegl-Brauwelt (beer brewery). There we wandered the museum learning the process of beer making before having a chance to sample three of the beers Stiegl make. Now we thought that these samples would be a small shot glass, but no, they were a normal size beer glass. The first beer was disgusting. It was not clear more an opaque colour. Grandad w...

AUSTRIA - DAY 4 After breakfast we headed into the city to wander around. This proved to be more challenging than we thought. We caught a bus from the stop outside the hotel and ended up . . . who knows where. The bus driver kindly helped us out so we caught the next bus from there and we ended up at the train station. A third bus later and we eventually got where we wanted to be in the first place. This is the first city we have had trouble understanding the ...

AUSTRIA - DAY 3 - TRAVELLING TO SALZBURG It was even colder this morning and looking up at the mountains we could see snow further down the mountain than the day before. Everyone is saying that this is the most bizarre spring they have ever had. It has been so cold. It's hard to believe that we are only about a week away from summer and they are getting snow storms. We travelled by train from Innsbruck and arrived in Salzburg mid afternoon. After finding out ...