Day in Salzburg

Today was a lovely day. We got up early and took the train from Munich to Salzburg, Austria and spent the day there. Salzburg is a beautiful city. We did a little hike up to the fortress above the city, from which there were some breathtaking views of the city and of the mountains. Then we pretty much just wandered for the afternoon until it was time to come back. We didn't get a chance to do any of the Mozart museums because they were a bit too expensive so that was too bad but we had fun window shopping and checking out some cathedrals. Had some wursts and sauerkraut for lunch and apfel streudel for dessert!

Some random observations: It's pretty amazing how prevalent both beer and cigarettes are here! They sell beer on the train and all over in the streets, though we've been hard-pressed to find a diet coke! And everyone smokes. Everyone. That's the one thing we haven't liked; all the restaurants are smoky.
We've also been pretty impressed by how environmentally-friendly they are here. There are separate recycling bins for paper, plastic, etc all over the city and on the train rides we noticed that in the country some of the houses and most of the farms have solar panels on the roof! That's pretty cool.
We also saw graffiti that had George Bush's face and the word LIAR in Salzburg today.
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