{"id":2242,"date":"2013-07-09T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:19:50","slug":"do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2013\/07\/09\/do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sunset over Wolfgangsee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Having said goodbye to our Scottish neighbours and Rodney\u2019s German man, who he had befriended the night before, we left the campsite-with-the-longest-name.\u00a0 It only took us an hour to drive to Salzburg and arriving at 10:45am at Panorama Camping Stadtblick, must be the earliest check-in we have done yet!\u00a0 The campsite is high on a hill on the edge of Salzburg and we\u2019ve parked Eileen so that we have a view over the city to the Hohensalzburg Fortress.\u00a0 We sat and ate our lunch in the sunshine and read for a while, then around 2:30pm we walked the 3kms into the city centre.\u00a0 A market was spread out along the Salzach River, which I naturally took a stroll along, while Rodney sat in the long grass and watched the passing boats.<\/p>\n

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\"Mirabel
Mirabel Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Being a Sunday, there seemed to be mainly tourists wandering around all the scenic spots and we heard so many different languages as we roamed around the Mirabel Gardens and the old part of the city.\u00a0 Around 5pm, we stumbled upon an Irish Pub; isn\u2019t there one in every city of the world now?\u00a0 The Wimbledon Men\u2019s Tennis Final was on and in the dark basement rooms of the pub they were playing it on three screens, so we pulled up a couple of bar stools and settled down to watch the game which was already half-way through the second set.\u00a0 We enjoyed a couple of drinks and lots of conversation with the friendly barman from Auckland and a geologist couple from Ireland.\u00a0 By the third set, it seemed that the Aussies, the Kiwi, the Irish and everybody else in the pub were all barracking for Mr Murray.\u00a0 It was wonderful when he did win and we\u2019re glad that we managed to see such a bit of history played out, though it did seem a little strange to be watching it in an Irish pub in Austria\u2026..!<\/p>\n

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\"Getreidegasse
The decorative shop signs along Getreidegasse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We celebrated the win with a slap-up dinner at McDonalds, half way back to the campsite, there really wasn\u2019t much else open on a Sunday night in Salzburg.\u00a0 We\u2019ll try and do a bit more of Salzburg tomorrow, with a bit more style.<\/p>\n

Rodney wants it noted that he didn\u2019t mention the war to the German man, so he thinks he got away with it; however the German man did<\/strong> mention the war\u2026..<\/p>\n

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The posh horse bath in Salzburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I wish I was \u2018Sixteen Going On Seventeen\u2019 because Monday was an exhausting day. We purchased Salzburg Cards at the campsite, which meant we could catch the bus in to the city for free.\u00a0 We then got discount on a \u2018Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Trip\u2019, so we boarded the next one heading out on its circuit around Salzburg and enjoyed the audio tour. We chose the \u2018Sound of Music\u2019 option and between the information segments, we sang along to the memorable tunes; not too loud, I might add.\u00a0 Our first hop-off was at Schloss Leopoldskron, which is a private palace where the boating scene was filmed on the lake for \u2018The Sound Of Music\u2019.\u00a0 Our next stop was at Schloss Hellbrunn and our card gave us free entry to the lovely small palace, the park and also to the Wasserspiele, the trick fountains, where we had a wonderful time.<\/p>\n

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One of the trick fountains in the Schloss Hellbrun gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The dining table trick….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We were in a large group of people, but the tour guide was brilliant, explaining everything in German and then in English.\u00a0 He played tricks on the children to start with, but by the end of the tour the adults were also getting pretty wet.\u00a0 The Archbishop Markus Sittikus had the palace built in the 17th<\/sup> century and he must have been a quirky chap as he apparently liked to play tricks on his guests out in the gardens.\u00a0 There are grottos and fountains, tiny marionettes and theatres, all powered by water from the streams.\u00a0 Each time you stopped to view the next attraction, you quickly got in to the habit of looking around to see if you could spot where the water would come from and some were so well hidden, inside deer antlers or minute brass holes in the ground, it was impossible not to get wet at some point.\u00a0 But it was a hot sunny day and even the children that were soaked through, seemed to dry off pretty quickly afterwards.\u00a0 I think the smiles on their faces lasted longer; I know I\u2019m still grinning just thinking about it a day later.<\/p>\n

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\"Children
Children getting squirted by trick fountains all around them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One of many beautiful ceiling inside Schloss Hellbrun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After a lovely wander around inside the palace, we strolled over to the Pavilion which featured in \u2018The Sound Of Music\u2019, unfortunately its locked so we couldn\u2019t go in and prance around; thanks goodness said Rodney\u2026.<\/p>\n

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\"Schloss
Schloss Hellbrun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The big yellow bus then took us past Gwandhaus, Schloss Frohnburg and Schloss Freisaal, one of which was used in \u2018The Sound Of Music\u2019 and we hopped off at Nonnberg Abbey back in Salzburg.\u00a0 This too was used in the movie and you\u2019re probably realising by now that our whole day seemed to revolve around that one big movie\u2026.<\/p>\n

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\"So
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehn, Goodnight…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We wandered around to Festungsgasse, considering a hot dog for lunch and then spotted a Vietnamese restaurant, so that solved our hunger pangs very nicely. We then we wandered on down to the Hohensalzburg Fortress which sits on the top of a hill in the centre of the city.\u00a0 By-passing the queue for tickets by waving our Salzburg Cards, we boarded Austria\u2019s oldest funicular up to Europe\u2019s largest, completely preserved, fortress dating from the 11th<\/sup> C.\u00a0 It is a massive complex and we roamed about for hours, in dungeons, torture chambers, a kitchen, the museum, state rooms, marionette museum, up turrets, down stairs, and up to the top of a tower that provided a spectacular 360\u00b0 view of Salzburg and all of the surrounding hills and mountains.\u00a0 We could even see Eileen in the campsite from up there.<\/p>\n

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\"View
View across Salzburg towards our campsite from Hohensalzburg Fortress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We rode the funicular back down and then ambled through the cemetery attached to St Peters Cathedral until we were both in need of a long cold drink.\u00a0 There were a few outdoor caf\u00e9s in one of the squares, so we ordered the biggest drinks on the menu and rested our feet for a short while.\u00a0 Up in the fortress we had seen a sketch of a panorama of Salzburg and the finished product is exhibited in Residenzplatz, so we showed our Salzburg Cards and wandered in for free.\u00a0 It\u2019s an amazingly detailed painting which is 26 metres long by 5 metres high and you walk in to the centre to view it.\u00a0 It was painted in 1829 and toured Europe for ten years as an early version of tourism promotion.\u00a0 There was also an exhibition on the Von Trapp Family, so we got in to the real spirit of the \u2018The Sound Of Music\u2019 and read all about the real family that it was based on.<\/p>\n

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\"Hohensalzburg
Hohensalzburg Fortress and the big gold ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Next stop was at Mozart\u2019s birthplace in Getreidegasse, which though getting quite late, was still very busy.\u00a0 We spent ages looking at all the exhibits and reading all about his life, until we felt completely Mozarted out and stepped back outside to find our way across town, past the Horse Bath (lucky horses, it\u2019s very posh) to the M\u00f6nchsbergslift.\u00a0 Before heading over there, I did have to buy some Mozart chocolate in the Spar supermarket under Mozart\u2019s house, just to give me a bit more energy of course.<\/p>\n

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\"Mozarts
Mozarts birthplace and Spar supermarket !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We flashed our Salzburg Cards again for a free trip up to the Panorama Terrace and yes, they filmed here for \u2018The Sound Of Music\u2019 too.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure there are any bits of Salzburg that didn\u2019t end up in the movie and we have to admit that we now want to watch the movie again, just to spot all the places we\u2019ve roamed around.\u00a0 Too tired to keep walking by now, we grabbed a table overlooking the city and had a big bowl of soup each; goulash soup for Rodney and a noodle soup with frankfurters and a huge cheese dumpling for me; I was trying to be adventurous\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Hohensalzburg Fortress from the Panorama Terrace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Finally, we dragged ourselves back through the woods to the top of the M\u00f6nchsbergslift and rode it back down to the city.\u00a0 We had considered walking back through the Mirabel Gardens for one last blast of \u2018Sound of Music\u2019 sites but decided to just walk over the Mozart Bridge and catch the bus outside another residence of the Mozart family, back to our residence in the campsite. There were a lot more things we could have done for free with our Salzburg Cards, but we had run out of time and energy, I felt like we had climbed every mountain.\u00a0 It was definitely time for a warm shower and bed, but first we had to get all the silly songs out of heads.\u00a0 \u201cHigh On A Hill Was A Lonely Goatherd\u201d\u2026\u2026.no, shut up!!!<\/p>\n

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\"Grumpy
Grumpy marionettes looking for a woman with a guitar and seven children….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We left Heidi Land and the campsite full of Scandinavians on Tuesday morning and drove across the border in to Germany.\u00a0 Eileen was settled into a car park on the edge of Berchtesgaden and we walked across to the Salzbergwerk, a salt mine; it was a fun excursion and far less exhausting than yesterday.\u00a0 After buying our tickets we were kitted out with snazzy overalls and then the expedition began.\u00a0 \u201cHi Ho, Hi Ho, It\u2019s Off To Work We Go\u201d\u2026\u2026.wrong movie!<\/p>\n

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\"Modeling
Modelling the latest salt mine fashions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A little \u2018train’ took us deep into the mountain, 1.4kms, to a \u2018cathedral\u2019 cavern and from there we shot down a 34-metre wooden slide to a lower level.\u00a0 At the bottom, we walked for a while to a model of the mine and some information about the place and then continued on, strolling past various equipment and mineshafts, to a room full of samples and more information.\u00a0 I would have liked to have lingered longer in there, as there was a lot of interesting stuff about salt, but we were hurried along to whiz down another 40-metre wooden slide to an underground lake.\u00a0 We boarded a boat and travelled 100-metres across to the other end; looking down in to the water created a perfect mirror of the roof of the low cavern.\u00a0 Music played, and lights reflected patterns across the walls and lake, then all too quickly we were off the boat and boarding a funicular railway back up to the train.\u00a0 We were then whisked back up to the surface, with a few small fake mine explosions along the way.\u00a0 The whole trip was just over an hour and had us blinking in the bright sunlight when we came back up to the surface.\u00a0 Unfortunately no photography was allowed inside, so you\u2019ll have to Google or Bing the place to see what it looks like inside!<\/p>\n

After a picnic lunch, we drove to Camping Winkl-Landthal, where we checked in for one night and spent the afternoon washing everything and having a thoroughly good catch-up afternoon.<\/p>\n

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