These are a few of my favourite things

After Prague it was time to head for Salzburg, this required two different trains and with it you get two different stories - aren't you spoilt!

During our travels me and Jen have made no attempt to socialise with outsiders and have been content with each other for company. We enjoy our own space so it suits us fine not really socialising! Sometimes we can't even be bothered to socialise with each other hahaa

Train one from Prague to Linz, Austria. Here we found our seats for the journey in a little cabin (like on the Hogwarts train). Eventually we were joined by an American guy who plucked up the courage to try and engage us in conversation. Having not socialised with outsiders for around 3 weeks this was scary! Anyhow we found out he was living in Linz working as an English teaching assistant, had only seen Heathrow in England and enjoyed a cheep kebab in Prague. He also told us about getting a 'Salzburg card' to get discounts into different museums which was nice to know even if we didn't follow his advice because we weren't interested in visiting the museums. Still was nice to talk to someone other than my sister for 5 minutes.

Now onto story 2 which is more interesting - again sat in our seats we were joined by a group of 2 elderly couples. Old people talk to everyone so we were forced into conversation again - by now my social threshold was being stretched :p Anyway the typical icebreaker question of 'where do you come from?' was voiced. They were obviously English as they were talking about ordering a cuppa within seconds of sitting down so I said Gloucester. Laughs erupted. Turns out one of the ladies lives in Gloucester also - 926 miles (thanks google) from home suddenly made the world feel a whole lot smaller!

A long way from home

Other than traveling the most productive thing we did on that day was wash our clothes in the sink. Something before these travels I probably had never done seeing as home has a washing machine.

Believe it or not the actual process of travelling from A to B is actually quite tiring and not as much as a rest like we'd hoped would be the case. As a result we decided to make our first full day in Salzburg a rest day. By rest day I mean a lazy morning followed by a McDonald's followed by a trek up a big steep mountain! I soo wanted to give in half way up but decided I may as well plod on. The views at the top were fantastic so it made the walk worth while :) the plan for the evening was to try and watch the sound of music on my tablet but the internet was too slow so we settled on doing some of our travel journals. Oh yea my trousers also ripped today - wouldn't have been an issue but they were the only pair I had on me during my travels -_-

Salzburg through the trees

The following day I was on a mission to find some new trousers. I eventually found some within my price range in good old h&m, happy days :) we headed into the city for a walk around but didn't come across anything interesting so we settled for sitting along the river enjoying the hot weather.

Percy enjoyed catching the sun along the riverside

The next day we had booked to go on a sound of music tour! It was really fun seeing all the filming location and inside knowledge about how the film was constructed. During the trip we stopped for an hour in the town of Mondsee, home to the church used during the wedding scene in the sound of music. It was a cute little town and did very nice cake! During the coach trip the sound of music soundtrack was played which was enjoyable.

Sound of music locations

I did enjoy my time in Salzburg but it has been my least favourite place so far. I think this is mainly due to the area not having an awful lot to do.

Amester x