Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Schnitzel, Without Noodles

On Thursday we drove to Salzburg, Austria. We walked the city, enjoyed the view and the food. I ate half of my first chocolate covered pretzel (Kristi got the other half). Wunderbar!

If you ever get to Salzburg, be sure you take the "original" Sound of Music tour (not the "unique" Sound of Music tour which is also available). The guide could take his sabbatical at Disneyland doing the Jungle Cruise. He is great. He's been doing the tour for 12 years. (Maybe that's why he's worked on his schtick.) Apple strudel with vanilla sauce in Mondsee (where the church is located where the Captain and Maria, in the movie, were married).

Salzburg has salt mines, hence the name. How, with so much useless information in my head, could I have never heard that before? We strolled through the Mirabel Gardens twice. This is where much of Do-Re-Mi was filmed. Very fun. We walked to the castle which was begun in the 600's (yes, 600's, not 1600's) and finished in the 1700's. (America is such a young country.) People in earlier generations were in much less of a hurry and took a much longer view of life, even though their own lives were shorter.

We finished our Friday with Schnitzel in one of the oldest establishments in Salzburg. The waiter was a space cadet who, even after we asked for the bill, would look at us, and the other customers who wanted their bills, and would then go off to do something else. Eventually we almost grabbed him by the shirt front to get our bill, paid it, and strolled back to our pensione.

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