I'm just gonna do a quick photo blog entry on my Eastern Europe trip. hehe. This was a 9 day blitzkrieg tour of Eastern Europe with Chee Hui, my partner in crime...

Salzburg - 30 Mar - 1 Apr 07

Flew into Salzburg - hometown of Mozart, where we spent a couple of nights in Yoho Hostel.

The city at night.

It was quite a small city I must say (small = within walking distance from end to end) Made a couple of visits to the Mozart places:

Such as the Mozart Birth-house and Residence.

And we also visited the Fortress Hohensalzburg.

Day trip to Golling

We also made a day trip to Golling on the 2nd day cos we've kinda covered the main attractions in Salzburg and decided to head out to a less "touristy" place... which indeed was a great choice....

Set magnificently against the alps, Golling makes a wonderful getaway from the hustle and bustle of city life.



Of which, the main attraction was the Golling waterfall, which is 3km from the city centre/train station (took us ~30 mins to walk there), which we later found out was actually closed for the season, although we ignored the barricade and went through it...
Beautiful eh?

And then because we were thirsty and our bottles were empty, we decided to fill our bottles with nice, refreshing spring water from the river... and boy, i've never tasted water this good... (ok, maybe 2nd to Singapore's tap water... ;p) After a long and tiring trek to the falls, we headed to the town of Golling for some dinner.

We had initially wanted to try this restaurant which was recommended in our guide, but turns out that it's closed down/renamed and we couldn't find it, so we had to settle for something else, which wasn't at all a bad choice.

I can still remember the taste of the yummy roasted ribs.... SOOOOOO yummy... and of course, cheap beer to go with it. Eastern Europe is one of the few places on earth where beer is cheaper than any other drinks!

Gonna stop here for now to give me something to do for the next couple of days... ;p

Labels: Golling, Salzburg