We arrived in Salzburg Hbf and I called an Uber.  (the taxi in Vienna was a rip off 
charging double what Uber and bolt said it would cost)Â Â It was about a 15 minute ride to the hotel which was on the outskirts of the city.
We checked in.  they told us that part of the city room tax paid for transit passes by the guy behind desk. It was for all public transit in Salzburg. Wow. We were informed at checking that Breakfast was €20 unless you ordered it the night before, then it was €15.   We took advantage of the €15 deal for the first day to see if it was worth it. It was decent so we stuck with that for the rest of the time in Salzburg.  There were a lot of restaurants nearby but they didn’t open till after 8 or 9am, a bit late when you have a tendency to wake up around 6am each morning and needed a jolt of coffee to wake up.
We found out that the free transit was a recent change in Salzburg, having your room tax pays for free access to all public transit the whole time you stay in Salzburg!  We took advantage of that! Many times
We stumbled upon Mozart’s birth place, on our walk to the castle/fortress. It was mobbed so we go away from there a quick as we could.  We found a huge square with lots of building surrounding it with a spectacular view of the fortress on the cliff.  We headed over toward the Funicular to take us 
up to Fortress Hohensalzburg Amazing views from up there. It really had a commanding view of the whole valley from inside the fortress.  It looked huge on top of that small mountain but 
when you walked around it, it wasn’t nearly as large as it looked from the bottom of the hill down by the river.  We spent a couple hours wandering around up there.  Great views in all directions.
We then took the funicular down to find somewhere for lunch, preferably inside as it was lightly raining when we got out of that.  I located 220Grad, it looked too newish but was pretty good. Although the place next door looked much nicer to me there was no availability for inside seating, only outside at that time.  We found a chocolate shop on the way back toward the river and the gals bought some and shared with us. I was really good.
Early the next morning Scott and I took a trip to see the Eagles Nest,  a few buses to get there, which was 
supposedly only 30 clicks away. It seemed a lot further when we finally got there a couple of hours later.  Bus from hotel to train station, then find Bus 840 to Berchtesgaden, then find bus 838 to Obersalzburg, then wonder over to another station to buy tickets and then onto an Electric bus that took us up the mountain to a parking lot in front of a long walking tunnel thorough the mountains core that lead to an Elevator that took us up to the Eagles Nest perched on top of the mountain.
What a place on top of that mountain. Scott had us toast Easy Company from the 101st airborne division for liberating it. (He never watched Band of Brothers!) We spent a good couple of hours up there drinking beer and taking pictures.  We had to reverse the process to get back down. And when finally back in Bertchesgarten we got on bus 840, but going south instead of north. oops, took an extra 45 minutes to get back to Salzburg.
The next morning a Marathon messed up traffic getting to town and it (the bus) left us off far from the stop it should have.  A lot of the roads were closed for a marathon that morning. We got off and I had to figure out how to get from there to the river via google maps.  As we walked up this narrow lane we stumbled upon Tami &Scott coming out of church right in front of us as we walked toward the river. They had left an hour or two earlier and I thought they were on the other side of that river after getting a text from them a few minutes prior.  We had been planning on going to an Outdoor Concert, but it was canceled due to rain.  We walked over the the Big Cathedral and they all went into it to take a few pics. By this time I was church-ed out..
Dinner at Schlemmerkuchl just a short walk from the hotel 
down a small residential street for last night in Salzburg, it was amazing!
