Salzburg, Austria

The next morning we left for Salzburg, Austria. We stayed at the NH Hotel on Franz Joseph Strasse. While driving there it started to rain (the first rain of the trip!). We had some trouble finding it because it was covered up in sheets and scaffolding.  I got out of the car and was able to locate it and the woman at the desk told me where to park. Andrew drove around the block and pulled into a parking garage (we thought it was the right one!)...and we were trapped....like rats....I mean mice! It was kind of scary!  We pulled in, the door behind us closed and there was no where to go! There was no one around and it was just an empty space. It looked like it might have been one of those elevator garages we'd seen on t.v. (where you get out of the car and the machine moves your car around).  Andrew beeped the horn and the door in front of us opened (thank goooooodness!) and we drove out as quickly as possible!  We drove around the block and we were able to find the correct garage to the hotel (very small, but Andrew was able to maneuver the car into a spot)!

We checked into the hotel and went walking around Salzburg. We had been there before (about 7 years ago) also. We love that town!  We did a little shopping and decided to buy a few Salzburg Christmas ornaments...here are just a few of the choices we had!

We did a little walking through town:

We went back to the hotel and got ready for dinner!  We had tickets for the Mozart Dinner Concert at the Stiftskeller St. Peter. It is a restaurant that was built around 803 a.d. It is said to be the oldest restaurant in Europe!

We were seated with Bill and his wife Fran, who were traveling from Canada with their friends Nicki and Polly and another couple from California-Dave and Cathy. The food, unfortunately, was nothing to write home about. There wasn't much flavor.......But, we did have a nice bottle of wine, good company and wonderful music!  There were two violins, a cello, a bass and a viola, and singers-one male and one female.

What a wonderful evening!  After the concert we went back to Dave and Cathy's hotel and had a glass of wine and just talked for about an hour. What a nice couple!  It was around midnight when we headed back to our hotel.

The next morning we had a nice breakfast at: