Salzburg

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18 July 2022

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After a long day of driving yesterday we finally made it to Salzburg. The evening was spent at a Mozart dinner theater where we were serenaded by opera singers accompanied by a quintet. Their baroque dress completed a very Austrian atmosphere.

This morning started with several hours of running through the hills of the town with Paula. On the Kapuzinerberg we saw the monestaries in the forest and beautiful views north out on to the Bavarian plane on one side and south into the Alps on the other. The Alpine side is also not so steep and so a defensive wall was built along it that is now just next a trail. It's interesting to think that the wall faced in the direction of the Turks rather than toward the European kingdoms to the north, but in fact it's merely an accident of the hill's topography. We ran around the Nonnenberg but were up too early to see the Höhensalzburg Castle, so we ran on into the forests of the Mönchsberg before heading back to our hotel. After breakfast Iwona headed to the museum of modern art while I found a biergarten and wrote postcards until she joined me for lunch. Then it was off into mountains again in the car to the next country...