Salzburg, Austria

On 20 June we drove about 150kms from Hopfgarten to Salzburg in Austria. The trip was incredibly slow with the weather really bad and rain constantly coming in sideways making for not-so-great driving conditions.

Sandra was keen to see the city (she denies being a fan of The Sound of Music, but I'm not convinced because she was singing "doe, a dear, a female dear ... ray a drop of golden sun.." the whole way. Not really, I'm just kidding).
When we eventually got there we found driving in the city to be pretty easy (after over 2000kms I've got this driving on the right thing nailed) and found a parking spot in the old part of town. Mozart is big in town, and if I could be bothered I would have figured out why, but when you see a cool looking castle on top of a hill it just cries out for a look.

So, after trekking to the top (I exaggerate because there was a cable train ride) we checked out some of the town's medieval history.

Lachlan bought a sword and shield because he really wanted one and it had absolutely nothing to do with me thinking it would be cool to dub him "Sir Lachlan of Northumberland".

Yet again, we tucked into some good Austrian tucker before doing more of the touristy things in town despite the rain not stopping for a minute.

The drive back was another long 150km to Hopfgarten but it was fun for the kids to spend about an hour of the trip in Germany where we stopped for a burger at a truck stop (just so we could say we had at least one meal in Germany!).