{"id":13923,"date":"2025-06-08T02:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=13923"},"modified":"2025-06-08T02:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:05:34","slug":"salzburg-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2025\/06\/08\/salzburg-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Salzburg Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"

We arrived in Salzburg Hbf and I called an Uber.\u00a0\u00a0 (the taxi in Vienna was a rip off \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>charging double what Uber and bolt said it would cost)\u00a0\u00a0 It was about a 15 minute ride to the hotel which was on the outskirts of the city.<\/p>\n

We checked in.\u00a0\u00a0 they told us that part of the city room tax paid for transit passes by the guy behind desk.\u00a0 It was\u00a0 for all public transit in Salzburg. Wow.\u00a0 We were informed at checking that Breakfast was \u20ac20 unless you ordered it the night before, then it was \u20ac15.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We took advantage of the \u20ac15 deal for the first day to see if it was worth it.\u00a0 It was decent so we stuck with that for the rest of the time in Salzburg.\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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!\u00a0\u00a0 We took advantage of that!\u00a0 Many times<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We stumbled upon Mozart’s birth place, on our walk to the castle\/fortress.\u00a0 It was mobbed so we go away from there a quick as we could.\u00a0 \u00a0We found a huge square with lots of building surrounding it with a spectacular view of the fortress on the cliff.\u00a0 \u00a0We headed over toward the Funicular to take us \"\"<\/a>up to Fortress Hohensalzburg\u00a0 Amazing views from up there.\u00a0 It really had a commanding view of the whole valley from inside the fortress.\u00a0\u00a0 It looked huge on top of that small mountain but \"\"<\/a>when you walked around it, it wasn’t nearly as large as it looked from the bottom of the hill down by the river.\u00a0 \u00a0We spent a couple hours wandering around up there.\u00a0 \u00a0Great views in all directions.<\/p>\n

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We then took the funicular down to find somewhere for lunch, preferably inside as it was lightly raining when we got out of that.\u00a0 \u00a0I located 220Grad, it looked too newish but\u00a0 was pretty good.\u00a0 Although the place next door looked much nicer to me there was no availability for inside seating, only outside at that time.\u00a0 \u00a0We found a chocolate shop on the way back toward the river and the gals bought some and shared with us.\u00a0 I was really good.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Early the next morning Scott and I took a trip to see the Eagles Nest,\u00a0 \u00a0a few buses to get there,\u00a0 which was \"\"<\/a>supposedly only 30 clicks away.\u00a0 It seemed a lot further when we finally got there a couple of hours later.\u00a0\u00a0Bus from hotel to train station, then find Bus 840 to Berchtesgaden<\/span>,\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>What a place on top of that mountain.\u00a0 Scott had us toast Easy Company from the 101st airborne division for liberating it.\u00a0 (He never watched Band of Brothers!)\u00a0 We spent a good couple of hours up there drinking beer and taking pictures.\u00a0 \u00a0 We had to reverse the process to get back down.\u00a0 And when finally back in Bertchesgarten we got on bus 840, but going south instead of north.\u00a0 oops, took an extra 45 minutes to get back to Salzburg.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>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.\u00a0 \u00a0A lot of the roads were closed for a marathon that morning.\u00a0 We got off and I had to figure out how to get from there to the river via google maps.\u00a0 \u00a0As 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 We had been planning on going to an Outdoor Concert, but it was canceled due to rain.\u00a0\u00a0 We walked over the the Big Cathedral and they all went into it to take a few pics.\u00a0 By this time I was church-ed out..<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dinner at Schlemmerkuchl\u00a0 just a short walk from the hotel \"\"<\/a>down a small residential street for last night in Salzburg, it was amazing!<\/p>\n

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We arrived in Salzburg Hbf and I called an Uber.\u00a0\u00a0 (the taxi in Vienna was a rip off charging double what Uber and bolt said it would cost)\u00a0\u00a0 It was about a 15 minute ride to the hotel which was on the outskirts of the city. We checked in.\u00a0\u00a0 they told us that part of … <\/p>\n

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