The sun had finally come out to play in Austria. Unfortunately, it was the day we were leaving Salzburg! We had one more stop to make in Austria before leaving the country - Vienna. Vienna was really only a quick stopover on the way to Bratislava though so we didn't really give it the time it probably deserved although, both Calvin and Kate had been to Vienna before so it wasn't too huge a deal that we only spent 3 hours in the capital city. The drive was ni...

It was time to get our Sound of Music on today! The weather looked a bit dreary outside but that wasn't going to stop us. We had a bit of a sleep in then Calvin downloaded the Sound of Music songs to play in the car. We drove into the centre of Salzburg, listening to Sound of Music songs along the way, parked the car and then walked to the Nonnberg Convent (where the nuns sang 'Maria'). The chapel was closed for renovations and you couldn't go into the convent bu...

Leaving our favourite country (so far) was difficult - even the drive out through the north of Slovenia was still splendid and made us realise how much more we could explore the country! But on to Austria it was, crossing the border inside a tunnel - first time we've crossed countries while driving through a tunnel. The actual official border control was inside the Slovenian border and we got through that without any hitches.  The first thing we noted about ...