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Still had a few more hours on the Salzburg card, so we had a look at the Toy museum. It's pretty good, even if it is aimed more at kids than big kids. At first it seemed a bit disappointing since there were three rooms, but then there were another 2 floors that we almost missed. It's very interactive. There's a marble run and a room for constriuction toys. Upstairs are a bunch of more static exhibits, including the He-Man exhibit, which was there to mock us for being old enough to remember. Apparently the slot car racing runs from 3pm to 4pm, but we didn't wait around for that. The top floor has a lot of model railway stuff. Press button to make train go. Quite a nice layout.

After that we went to the science and natural history museum. Lots of hands on stuff. These things are fun, but I do wonder if kids actually learn anything from them. Flickums braved the reptile house, fearing they may have sneaked some spiders in there but it was mostly snakes and actual reptiles.

Finished the day by heading to the palce that does vintage photos. I was the King of Austria, and

flickums was my lady. I was possibly a bit too smiley for a serious royal, but I'm a naturally smiley person.( Olde worlde photoe undere ye cut )
So, time up, we strolled back to the hotel, got a taxi to the airport, and took turns being stressed out an anxious. Me because Salzburg airport was small and crowded; flickums because of scare-o-planes. Still, we found a nice place to sit and at least we had spare space on the plane.

Plane took off. Plane landed. Am only slightly bruised by flick grabbing me.

Finished the day going to the Augustiner braüstübl. A brewery and collection of beer halls.

Was a little bemused at first because the entrance looked like the entrance to an apartment building, but heading down the stairs we heard the bustle of people.

We found a tale and I tried to figure out how to buy beer. It's a bit of an odd setup. Collect mug. Pay for beer. Acquire receipt. Exchange receipts for beer. There were two beers listed but I only worked out how to buy one of them.

Food was a little simpler. A series of stalls in one of the rooms. There didn't seem to be a lot of option for a complete meal though.

Decided to buy some souvenir mugs. And some souvenir beer. The mug purchasing system was similar to the beer purchasing system, but the bottled beer purchasing system was the simple prices of exchange money for crate of 6 beers.

Happy with my purchase, we returned home.

...And I'm going to climb it with strength not of my own.

Instead I'll use the cable car.

The Untersberg cable car costs almost as much as the 24 hour Salzburg card, and the salzburg card gives 24 hours free public transport, plus a morning of visiting other places for free. So buying the card seemed a good choice. So we caught the bus to the mountain. I was worried that I wouldn't know which stop it was but it turned out it was the last one, so that made it easier. We got into the cable car. Quite a journey. Not been on such a long cable car ride before.

At the upper cable car station there are signs on the wall describing the place. Apparently Emperor Frederick Barbossa is asleep in the mountain. The mountain is also notable for being used at the start and end of the sound of music. It's no surprise Maria was late back though since they filmed from the German side. Also - the mountain is nowhere near Switzerland so not a good escape route.

Trudged up the slippery slope and there's a nice little cafe where I ordered a gluhwien and soup, and flickums ordered ham and bread. We then swapped food halfway through because I already had a hot warming gluwein, and flick didn't seem to like her nibbles all that much (possibly because of the horsradish). I like horseradish so was happy to trade.

We then walked a little further up. There's a cross right t the top of a mounain and some fantastic views, so I made it all the way top thetop of the mountain! I played with the panoramic mode of my camera app. Flick threw snowballs at me. I threw some at her. They weren't good snowballs but it was fun. We strolled down and just missed the cable car. Fortunately there was one more. It ocurred to me that I hadn't paid attention to when the last car was.

Stopped on the way back to get photos of the correct Von Trapp house (the one used in the movie, not the real one, which is miles away). Took more photos. Now we need to find somewhere to eat.

It was

flickums' birthday. So we got up and I gave Flickums her birthday presents and cards. The card had dinosaurs on it.

We'd already done the sound of music tourso this time we went on the Bavarian mountains and salt mine tour. And Crepes. Gotta have crepes! Then I bought myself a hat, which does make me look a bit like Where's Wally, but does keep my head warm.

The tour took us into Germany (Salzburg is right by the border) and into the mountains, where we saw Hitler's holiday resort. Then we were taken to the salt mines.

The tour started with us donning stylish and tasteful overalls. Then we got on the train and we were taken deep into the mountains. This took us to a wooden slide that allowed us into the mines. Flick was too scared to use the slide so she took the walkway instead. I think she missed out. So, the tour continued, with an audio guide that seemed a little out of sync with the actual tour, but gave us the information about what we were seeing or had just seen. There were UV lights that made the white lines on the overalls glow. Tour went to a salt filled lake. It was hard to tell it was a lake, the water was so still. They had a barge going across and a light show to keep us entertained. We then went down another slide. I nagged flickums to try this one. She was very brave and did so, so I promised her a reward.

We stopped at the gift shop and bought gifts, then the tour took us to a pretty litte tourist town called Bad something or other. I bought Flick a goat as a reward for her bravery. She called it Monty. We then had hot chocolate and drove back to Salzburg where we got stuck in traffic.

Finished the day with aother trip to the restaurant we went to on Sunday. Flick wanted to try the chocolate pudding.

I had fun. And I think flick enjoyed her birthday, which is what's important :)

Today I successfully woke up

flickums. It was an easy going day so we strolled into town and went up in the lift to the modern art gallery. The gallery is at the top of the cliff that Salzburg juts against.

It is very nice up there. Away from the traffic and bustle of the city (although Salzburg is small so not too noisy or bustly). The old fortifications are up there and some nice paths to stroll along. Weather was chilly, but clear and sunny and this time we remembered our coats.

Had a peek inside the art gallery because we'd paid for it. I wouldn't say it really caused an emotional reaction, unless bemused counts as the reaction the pieces were trying to elicit. I guess I'm just a philistine who doesn't understand art. So we went out again and wandered around the clifftop. The sun set behind the mountain as we were up there and it suddenly got very cold. We got some lovely photos though.

Decided we'd had enough traditional Austro-bavarian megafood for a while so went for Italian. Still had an Austrian beer though. Can't have too much of that.

Took a while to got Flick out of bed. Apparently some jerk was keeping her awake by snoring. Ooops.

But I needed to get her out of bed because we were off to Munich for the Bavarian film studios. Had trouble working out the best ticket. €74 each seemed a little much. As it turned out there was a cheaper option; €30. Return. For both of us. Including Munich public transport. We had to get the slower train but since that was 1h 50 rather than 1h 30 it seemed worth the saving. And the train to Munich has a pretty view of the mountains and of picturesque Bavarian villages.

Since yesterday was so warm, I decided I'd just borrow a hoodie from flickums. By the time we got to the studios, it was sleeting and my coat was in another country. Still, we made it there. And we appeared to be in a fairly non-descript set of studio buildings. Was this even the right place? Eventually we found the entrance. Turns out that the tour is in German only. The English language tour is a summer only thing.

Worried that it might be a bit of a washout, we decided to sign up for the tour anyway. We'd come this far after all. As it turned out it was really good. Our guide - Michi was the guide for the Enlgish tour as well, so he spoke English and was kind enough to give us an English summary of what he said. The studios are used for a range of different show types, incuding the 24 hour shopping channel. So we saw part of that being filmed. More interesting was the set for some German soap opera (Sturm Der Liebe). The tour involved one of the guests being the receptionist reading from the autocue, and cutting between filmed footage I gather in reality, the filmed footage would also be recorded live.

Another section had a bunch of movie props from Big Game (a fairly obscure Finnish movie, but it did star Samual L Jackson), and I got a photo of myself in Air Force One. We also saw the set for Das Boot. A lot of it was fitting from a real German submarine. The director apparently was very keen on realism so tried to make the actors as miserable as possible.

Other fun interactive elements were me giving a weather forecast, and a film on a train set, with a moving scenery background (I was the moving background operator).

Finished the day meeting with a German friend of Flick's. Nice chap. A lead programmer with BMW. We swapped horror stories about big companies and bad projects. We went to a German beer hall and had beer (well, I did; Flick doesn't drink) and tasty steak in pepper sauce.

Caught a train home and arrived back at a sensible time.

I have the lonely goatherd song from the sound of music stuck in my head! Damn you Rogers and Hammerstein for your catchy songs!

It was a nice sunny day, we decided to do the Sound of Music tour today rather than the planned Flick's birthday thing. They have minivans with 7 passengers, but I expect they have a big bus during peak tourist season.

Our guide was a Spanish man named Antonio. So we drove around town, saw the lke that Maria and the children fell into, went to the gazebo where a 22 year old sang how she was 16, going on 17, took a photo of the wrong yellow house... We didn't get close enough to the Von Trapp house (and I'm not sure if it was the actual house or the movie prop) to get a good pic of that one. We did see some nice views of the Alps though. Not the Hil Maria twirled on, because that was miles away and in another country. Tour finished at Mondsee where we see the church where Maria was married.

Antonio was lovely. He was very talkative, and pointed out all the key locations for the sound of music as well as other sites of interest, including Doppler's birthplace, and took our photos, and stopped the one person who wasn't part of couple frm beinglonely.

Finished the day at a nice restaurant where they provided hefty Austrian luberjack sized protions of pork. Also two beers! Yum.

Plane left at the convenient time of just ater 4pm. Unfortunately, getting to Gatwick with plenty of leeway meant leaving early. And we arrived quite late. Weather was 'orrible. Still, hotel was dry and had bed in it. Also a bath, that

flickums decided to take advantage of. Flick was still full after second breakfast at the airport, but I wasn't, so I had to hunt down food. Took a while finding somewhere that just did something snack-like but I was much hapier when I returned. I was a bit cold and wet though, and flick was enjoying lounging in her jim-jams in the warm.

Sunday morning - weather still grotty. Also mildly anxious about there being enough to do. We do have a couple of planned trips. It being winter though a number of places are closed. I would have liked to have seen the marionette show but that only hapens between March and December. Stil, there is a contingency if we do run out of ideas. Am pondering whether to spend a few days in Munich instead.

Day 1 is best spent exploring. We walked into town. Salzburg is very pretty. We went to a nice cafe for lunch (zum mohren). Apparently Mozart and Schubert were amongst its patrons. Had a look at Mozart's bithplace because we're in Salzburg so we should.

I also wanted to visit Hohensalzburg castle, but had heard it was shut durng the winter. Turns out I had it confused with Helbrun palace. The castle was open. There's an option to walk. Or you can take the funicular and save the effort. So we did. Turns out though, it was later than I'd thought (timezones messed up my time sense). Still, we had enough time to see the bling room, a hatchet/wheel-lock pisol combo, varous weapons and what I assume it the magical theatre. Fantastic views from the tops. We saw some alps and some hills.

Having finished that, we loitered a bit before going on a hunt for strudel. We saw a shop that was selling strubel or owned by Herr Strubel so we figured we must be close. It didn't take long to find a strudelry. We strolled to the strudler and ate tasty main meal followed by strudel. We are now fully strudled.

Also less anxious about finding things to do to fill the time. There's actually quite a few things here and around. And if we do run out there's always an option of a second day trip somewhere.

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