the famous gazebo for the "Sixteen going on Seventeen" song
and the church that Maria and the captain were married in.
At the city where the church was we had AMAZING apple strudel and mulled wine, which, for those who don't know, is warm wine with cinnamon spice mixed it.
I'm still not quite accustomed to wine, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought. When we went into the church, I think my favorite part was seeing an actual skeleton on this throne at the altar.
My favorite part of the tour was the view shown down below and when the bus played the songs for us to sing along to. It was nice having a whole bus of people just as enthusiastic to sing their hearts out to a classic musical.
Naturally, coming back from the tour I was exhausted and after I took a (not long enough in my opinion) nap, my friends and I walked down town and climbed a fort that overlooked the city of Salzburg. Luckily, we made it to the last part of the sunset, which made part of the sky blood orange.
Couldn't help myself! But anyways, here's a couple pictures of the amazing view:
Surprisingly, I wasn't dying when I reached the top, so after we got our pictures of the sunset, we were on our way back down and headed over to dinner! Since I was in Austria, I HAD to try Wiener Schnitzel. I didn't actually know what it looked like, so I was very surprised to see that it was essentially fried meet, however it was still very yummy, especially with the cranberry sauce!
Aaaandd of course I went to bed immediately when I got back....but not after watching the first half of the Sound of Music (which was playing 24/7 at our hotel).
Saturday we went to the Neuschwanstein Castle, and I tried Bratwurst for the first time beforehand. Again, I wasn't sure what it was, so I was surprised to find out that it was pretty much a hot dog....but like way better (I'm not a big fan of hot dogs). Afterwards we made our trek up to the castle, which was awesome of course!
There was an option to ride a carriage pulled by horses, but my values and ethics were definitely going against that option, so we stuck to being healthy and walking up the hill! I also found it a bit hypocritical of me that I was so concerned about not supporting carriages or Zoos, yet I am still not a vegetarian. I can't really justify that one. (Yes I can----Bacon is yummy).
We then left the castle and made our way to our next hotel in Innsbruck. The city was beautiful, and we were fortunate to walk around a great amount of it. For dinner, we decided that we wanted to go in a group of 8 and try to find a place to eat. Needless to say it was a lot harder than we expected. As the night went on we were getting more tired and hungrier, but eventually started to make our back to our hotel hoping we would find something closer. After at least a good hour an a half we stumbled upon a Greek place with a big table practically glowing and beckoning for us to sit in it. Our tired feet and empty stomachs were relieved when we finally sat down and were able to have a delicious Greek meal. Although it took a while to get there, it was worth it!
The next day was all to ourselves to explore the city of Innsbruck. A couple of my friends and I went around to the main sites closer to our hotel. This included a building with a golden roof (which had an incredibly boring museum inside), a beautiful cathedral, and the clock tower that we were able to climb up on. At first I was a bit hesitant, but the view was absolutely worth the climb up the stairs. We had a lot of time to kill, so we went into a panini place, and then went to a cafe to grab a bit of the famous cake, Sacher Torte and proceeded to talk for about an hour. It was a nice ending to relatively relaxing weekend.
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