Day 7: Salzberg

We woke up early this morning and left Vienna for Salzberg. It was a
beautiful drive through the lower alps. The mountains just kept
getting bigger and bigger.

We stopped at a restaurant on the way where you could smoke in the
restaurant. It was extremely smokey in this restaurant, all people do
here is smoke. Tiffaney was very bothered by a group of people behind
us that must have smoked a pack while we ate. It was terrible the
entire tour bus smelled of smoke after that. We continued on to
Salzburg but Tiff could not make it and had to use the Emergency
Bathroom on the bus, I teased her cause even the old women on the bus
never had to. It rained on us most of the way to Salzberg.

When we got to town most of the rain had stopped and we went on our
sound of music excursion tour. Also included in the tour was going up
to obersalzberg which was the alpine getaway of Hitler and other high
Nazi offcials. It was really high and pretty neat to see. We got to go
down in some of the underground bunkers that they prepared and saw the
exact spot where hitlers house was, where eva brown his girlfriend
stayed before she went to Berlin and they were married just before
they committed suicide. In one of the bunkers there was a hole in the
wall where American soldiers tested how effective their bazookas would
have been if they would have had to take it by force. Everything was
destroyed by the Americans and later the new german government to
prevent it becoming to big of a tourist trap. The "eagles nest" which
was a nazi conference building on the mountain above obersalzberg was
not destroyed but the roads don't open till summer.

We were not really impressed with the sound of music portion we got to
see the outside of the convent where they were married in real life,
the gazebo, but of was just the one they used for outside shots, they
had the big one in studio I believe. We also gate where the children
ran to the abbey to get her back. As well as the castle they used when
she was going to the family in the beginning of the movie. It was a
drive by for that part, hardly slowed down for us. Our tour guide
almost forgot the gazebo ! We were almost back to our hotel and
everyone shouted what about the gazebo ! It was funny, we had alot of
sound of music fans !

After the tour we came back to the hotel were we just relaxed for a
short time before dinner. This dinner was not the best that we have
had, michaels salmon was undercooked, didn't look good and I had to
ask for chicken. It wasn't even on the dinner menu, the only chose has
salmon but enough of us didn't eat fish do we were able to get chicken.

After dinner we crashed and went to sleep early. At these hotels you
gave to sleep with the windows open bc you can't turn the heat off !
No screens on the windows or anything.