Also Mozart's birthplace and home to Herbert von Karajan. Austria is where coffee and croissants both started in Europe. The Turks/Ottomans/Muslims occupied the country at some time and when they left they left behind the coffee beans. The person in charge didn't like the smell of the roasting coffee beans so he banished the roasting to a particular town, which after the war was no longer in Austria but in Italy. The croissants were simply a form of bread baked in the shape of the crescent moon of the aforesaid Turks etc which the Austrians liked to break. Tom and I had a very relaxed morning as we had decided against going on the optional tour to Dacchau Concentration Camp. We know about its importance in history and we've seen programmes about it, but we didn't feel the need to be immersed in/regaled with the stories of people's death/torture. We have been told by others how depressing it can be. We left Munich this morning and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the countryside with glimpses of the Bavarian Alps here and there. It didn't take long to get to the Austrian border, and then a very short drive to Salzburg where we met up with a local tour guide who took us on a one hour walking tour of Salzburg starting with the Mirabell Gardens (which were used in Sound of Music) in the grounds of the Mirabell Palace which was built by an Italian archbishop for a woman and his 15 children. From there we could also clearly see the castle. A little further on and we saw the house where Mozart lived as an adult before he moved to Vienna. We also saw the house where Herbert von Karajan lived (we have a Beethoven CD by the Berlin Philharmonic that he conducted) before we then crossed the bridge to the old town and toured through the old shopping centre, seeing the house where Mozart was born. At the end of the walking tour we had free time in the town before being taken to our hotel (formerly a private residence) to freshen up. The tourist shops have t-shirts saying that there are no kangaroos in Austria. We had decided to join this evening's tour, which was a journey out of town to a farm where we met with glasses of schnapps, given a tour of the winter barn and then given a lovely meal with all the ingredients grown on their farm. It was delicious.