Another sunny day in Salzburg!

Having more time to see things today, we headed out of the hostel for the area near the Salzburg cathedral. We made tracks for St. Peter's cemetery, where the Von Trapp family hid out during the Sound of Music. But we didn't go for that, we went because...we...could? The graves are very well kept, and very pretty. Unfortunately, the cemetery and church grounds quickly filled up with tourists. You know the kind that come in big groups on big buses! Bloody tourists. ;-)

There was some kind of festival starting and we got to see the burgermeister (mayor) accompanied by an Austrian marching band (thankfully not marching at the time) preparing to open the festivities.

But the highlight of the day was the Salzburger Nockerl, a giant, sugary, sweet, fruity, calorie-laden, cholesterol-full, heart torpedo. (Alix: Actually, it is called a souffle but is really whipped eggwhites over raspberry filling baked to a meringue crust which leaves the middle pudding like. He complains but ate at least a third of it!!!) Very good, but I spent the rest of the day trying to pick raspberry seeds out of my teeth.

From Salzburg, we took a train (well, two different trains) to a small town nestled between the Austrian Alps and a pretty lake, called Hallstatt. The trains took a good three hours to get there (one was a "milk train" - stops in every little stadt [town] along the way), so by the time we got to the town and took the ferry over the lake, we arrived too late to see any of the sights, so we called it an early night. (Alix: Just in time to do more laundry in the sink!)