Yet another change of plans!

Well, our plans as far as Venice goes have changed yet again! While in Munich we reserved our seats for the next train to Venice. Just after Jordan made our last blog post we left the Internet cafe and headed to the train station to catch it. Unfortunately we miscalculated the distance we had to walk to the station and it was pouring rain to boot. So, despite our best efforts to run with our backpacks we weren't able to get to the train station in time and we missed our train. We looked into other options to get to Venice but they were all sold out. We had to make a quick decision as to where we wanted to go so we pulled out the Europe map and picked a central location between Munich and Venice that we wanted to go...Salzburg, Austria is was! That is where we are now. The original plan was to use this as a stop over on our way to Venice but we just found out that there is some kind of rail strike that wont allow that to happen. So, it is looking like Venice isn't going to happen for us, instead we are formulating a new travel plan but that hasn't been finalized yet.

Anyway, like I said we made a split second decision to come to Austria and we are glad we did! The city we are in, Salzburg, is pretty small but it is defiantly one of our favorites so far. The people are nice, the city is clean, and the scenery is amazing! Day one here we didn't have time to do a lot but we did go for an amazing dinner to celebrate Jordan's birthday courtesy of his parents (thank you so much Mr. and Mrs. Thompson!).

One of Salzburg's claims to fame is that "The Sound of Music" was filmed on location here. So, we started today be watching this movie in the hostel while we did our laundry. After the movie was done we toured the town and did our best to spot all scenery from the movie, amongst many other things...


A picture of the river that runs through Salzburg with the picturesque mountains in the background.


Me in front of a large fountain featured in "The Sound of Music"


"Festung Hohensalzburg" is a castle that over looks the city. It is the oldest and best preserved castle in Europe. We took a tram up there and toured around it.

Jordan at the top of the castle

Me at the top of the castle but with a different view

Inside the castle they had a few museum's. This was the armoury display, I felt like I was under attack!

Finally, we have Jordan in a cool looking garden that has the castle in the background. Again, this garden was in "The Sound of Music".

As I have already mentioned we are still planning our next move so we will probably spend one more day here and then we will let you know where in the world we end up!