9/9/08 Salzburg Austria
Today was kind of more of the same here in Salzburg. Kris, Mike, Shawn, and myself went to a museum exhibit that’s focus was on vices and sin represented in through art. Afterwards we all went window-shopping and exploring. In the afternoon the group of us found a stairwell that led up to an empty deck, and we sat up there for some length eating our lunches and the fresh fruit we had purchased earlier that day from the market. When we had finished we headed down the stairs and ducked into the nearest café we could find. The café was lively and filled with tourists, all talking and eating. We sat down an ordered coffees and then proceeded to play rummy with a deck of cards that Shawn had stashed away in his bag. When the card game got boring Shawn left and Mike, Kris, and I crossed over the bridge into new Salzburg. We found a decent record store and spent the next couple of hours thumbing through CD’s and Vinyl. That night a group of us ate dinner on at a beer garden located on the side of the hill that the Salzburg castle is on. The food was expensive but very good and filling. After dinner we walked up the side of the hill towards the castle. The view from the castle was amazing and you can see for miles and miles. While at the castle we got the opportunity to watch a quartet perform Mozart in a small medieval dinning hall. The quartet played beautifully and from time to time a man playing a French horn or the Austrian herding horn joined them. After the concert we rode a tram down the side of the mountain and then went out to and enjoyed Salzburg’s bars and clubs one last time.