more salzburg

I slept in until almost ten on our second day in Salzburg, because I didn't get to sleep until four a.m. Bob and Marilyn and Claire were going to the castle, and I was tired and had been to the castle in 1993, so I decided to stay back and hang around town so that I could be sleepy by myself rather than pulling everyone down with me. :) And I'm kind of scared of the funicular that takes you up to the castle. So after a nice breakfast at our hotel (which has this lovely tribute to its tercentenary on the front door), we headed out.

After bidding adieu to the castle-goers, I wandered around town for a couple hours. (We agreed to meet up again at Café Tomaselli.)

I liked all these pretty modes of transportation. I guess I said "moo" when I saw the first one.

I also liked the inside of this tiny Lanz shop, which had exquisite traditional wool dresses for tiny children that started at about $200 U.S. (Needless to say, I looked but did not buy.)

I was fond of this Ralph-Lauren-meets-Switzerland-ish room in a home store I peeked through, too.

I guess I said "moo" when I saw this.

I thought this coat was so pretty.

These are more giant horse baths, adjacent to the Prince's stables. I managed to obliviously walk right past Mozart's birthplace as I cruised around on my own, without Rick Steves . . . I didn't realize this until I got home and looked at the guide book to see where I'd been. Oh, well. You can't see everything, and I really like horses.

You can make a lot of money in Salzburg as a cliff-inspector. They get checked out regularly, to avoid landslides that kill people.

Did you know that George Clooney works for Nestle? He was everywhere.

I was kind of obsessed with the cliff. Really, stuff was just built right into it.

I was taking a photo of this church when the bells started clanging for noon, and I almost dropped my camera. It's hard to not know what time it is with so many church bells going off all the time.

When I am in charge of the world, all McDonald's will have signs like this.

Time to go wait at Café Tomaselli. I went in the back door, and noticed this sign. Konstanze Mozart was Mozart's wife. (Do you remember her from the movie Amadeus?) She and her kids and her second husband, George, lived next door to the café.

The Tomaselli family who set up the café in 1753 are still running the place.

Coffee is a BIG DEAL in Austria. The Turks attacked Vienna some time (I think in the late fifteenth century, but Google it if you're curious -- my knowledge of the Ottoman Empire is pretty negligible, but I pay attention to their coffee) and left behind a lot of coffee beans, so the "Wiener Kaffeehaus" (Vienna Coffeehouse) was invented, and spread across Europe.  I'll talk about that more when I post our photos from Vienna. But anyway, here is one of the most delicious cups of coffee I've ever been served:

When Bob and Marilyn and Claire joined me, we took off to go on our wonderful Sound of Music tour, which I will post about next I post. But for now, let me jump to the last thing we did (the following morning) before we left Salzburg, which was to visit the Salzburg Panorma.

 

According to Rick Steves (my travel guru), in the early 19th century, "360-degree 'panorama' paintings of great cities or events were popular." Really, this was very cool. You stood in the middle and a very, very detailed panorama painting of Salzburg was all around you.  You could play "Where's Waldo" with it! :) Can you find cute and colorful laundry in the following?

 

Okay, remember this house from the Panorama, because next time I post about our trip I'm going to tell you about it. The back of it is probably already familiar to you . . .