Today we said goodbye to the paradise that is St Wolfgang and drove to Salzburg. We stopped off and did some washing while waiting for checkin, and then dumped out stuff and headed out to explore the town.
We didn’t have a huge amount of time (a day starting from 3pm), but we really packed everything in. We went straight to the funicular to Hohensalzburg Fortress and enjoyed the sweeping views of the city, then headed down to the old town, aiming to see some sights on the way to Mirabell Palace.
Well, we did see the sights (Mozart’s Birthplace, the beautiful Getreidegasse street and the main squares), but we did so with the backdrop of the unexpected Unity Parade, which pumped the streets with EDM and crowds, which we thought made the tour of the city that much more exciting.
We ended our walk at Augustiner Bräu Mülln, the oldest brewery in Salzburg, and had our fill of locally brewed beer and local Austrian cuisine. The beer was fantastic, and tasted even better out of the ginormous ceramic steins that you get refilled after washing them yourself in the little fountains. We got 2L each (1L x 2 refills) which one of the bartenders assured us was the absolute minimum amount of beer to have, and I think we balanced it by eating one of everything on offer, including pork knuckle, pork belly, bratwurst, sauerkraut, salted radishes, potato crisps, horseradish, and copious amounts of mustard.
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