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Today was Brenda's birthday! Unfortunately the day didn't start very well. We were sick of how crammed The Tent was and the night had been really cold. The morning was overcast and still quite cold. Lots of lovely messages from family and friends made us both homesick too. Luckily the day got better as it went on. We met a really nice guy on the train who was training to be a fighter jet pilot. He told us lots of crazy stories about the SAS-like stuff they had to do. The sun came out and by the time we got to Salzburg, it was a beautiful day. Our hotel room was nice and we had a good walk around the old town. We had an amazing dinner - Brenda had roast guinnea fowl stuffed with mushrooms and cheese on a pear and walnut rice rissotto - fantastic! Sam had roast deer in a red wine sauce with potato and pumpkin cakes. Then, as we boarded our bus back to the hotel, we were greeted by a very enthusiastic group of Slovak football fans on their way to a match against Salzburg. Sam chatted to some of them and one of the fans, a giant of a guy, wanted to come back to NZ with us! Amid all the excitement, we nearly missed our stop but luckily we realised at the last second and managed to get off.
The next day we headed to our new accommodation - Haus Christine, a homestay. We thought it was in town but turned out this wasn't the case. After a bus ride into the suburbs and a walk up a steep hill, we found it. It was nice with great views but a bit far to go back in to central Salzburg. We went for a walk to the nearby village which was very pretty. We picked some delicious apples off a roadside tree and saw cows living in a barn.
On Saturday we had a tasty breakfast before catching the much easier and quicker train back to Salzburg. We had a bit of time so we checked out the pretty palace and gardens before catching our train to Switzerland.
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Don Honestly, I went to both places on a vaitocan once and they were both amazing! You really can't go wrong and I'm totally jealous. Munich is an amazing, beautiful city, lots of beer halls, very nice to walk around in. Dachau will stay with you. Austria Switzerland are absolutely breathtaking. We went up Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland it's near the city of Lucerne, which has the bluest-blue lake I've *ever* seen underneath snow capped mountains. It was lovely. London is of course fascinating. You will never get to see everything there unless you stay for weeks, so you'll probably have to pick quantity or quality. Both have their benefits; on our trip we moved really fast and saw everything (we had a lot of group passes though because we were on a tour so we saved a lot of time), but taking your time is fun too. I also love the London culture British people are awesome. We also took the Chunnel to Paris, really fun (except I hadn't mastered the art of walking on a train so I annoyed all the nearby Europeans by falling into them, haha). Paris is a wonderful city as well, the people aren't *quite* as warm (as England or Germany) but it's lovely just watch out for pickpockets. Especially in the subway and in crowds. So, it's hard to pick one place over the other. My advice is to just look at lots of pictures read travel reviews, and sit down as a family and decide which part of Europe sounds more interesting. Have fun!edit. I forgot to say too, if money is a consideration, I did find things were much more expensive in England because of how much the pound is worth. It's a good time, but Britain can be pricey, depending how much the pound is worth against the US dollar.Too, if you do decide to go to Paris, they run trains to go and see Versailles a gigantic palace outside of the city. The gardens go on and on and the palace itself is *huge*. Very beautiful area.History -Pictures (and they really don't do it justice)-= h=300 w=349 sz=76 hl=en start=1 um=1 tbnid=xRbPlWi2UJwzqM: tbnh=103 tbnw=120 prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpalace%2Bof%2Bversailles%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1