Salzburg

We went on a super week's holiday to Salzburg.  We had thought about going last year but are pleased we made it this year!  I wrote this list of things while we were there so thought I would copy it here and hopefully add photos!

Funny things

• Painful carpet
• Crumbling rock wall -stein slag
• Rising bollard
• Tipping at augustina
• Potato salad
• Brownlee dive
• John and clown
• Put your hands together ... In prayer
• We must have some real sound of music fans in the house. Yes. We have a treat just for you. Good.

Day1 weds

• Flight gatwick to Salzburg.
• Saw Walter and Amadeus.
• Delayed flight.
• Friendly taxi driver-wrong drop off.
• Didn't know which door!
• Awesome one room.
• Drinks and dinner at Cabrera -sheldonian.
• Walk in the rain along river and window shopping.
• Ping pong

Day 2-rain thurs

• Lie in and Harry potter
• Wander and found bakery. John had half an enormous loaf of ice bun!
• Wander round shops inc toy shop (awesome games, we bought travel Scotland Yard), interio and supermarket.
• Saw much higher river - like rapids.
• Tourist info and walk through some streets and squares.
• Return via supermarket and cooked pasta lunch.
• New ping pong game and Scotland Yard.
• Cabreras for beer guacamole and wifi.
• Augustina brewery tavern.

Day 3 - sunny fri

• Lie in
• Mirabel gardens. Picnic lunch. Music
• Booked on tour
• St. Peter's monastery cemetery
• Huhensalzburg fortress. Funicular views masks museum photo postcards.
• Cathedral
• Pretzel apple
• Maria bike tour -awesome. Jk-views, falling off boat, flags. Ck- music in basket, pics on bikes, fräulein Maria bike, j chain coming off, theatr pic, nunnery,lake and houses

Day 4 sat

• Lie in
• John run
• Catherine market
• Bus to fuschl with Eva and Abraham help.
• Paid for resort
• Lakeside rest, swim, platform, diving board, brass band, slide
• Hail storm, bus back. Red bull hq
• Il sole Italian
• Last night commonwealth athletics

Day 5 sun

• Lie in!
• Afternoon rest by theatres
• Sound of Salzburg dinner show

Day 6 mon -austerity

• Mega lie ins
• John yoga
• Table tennis
• Supermarket
• University square
• Dinner pasta
• Rock climbers
• Augustiner krugg
• Monchslag walk
• Opera

Day 7 Tuesday rain

• Bus to mondsee with guide nick and English Frances and poppy.
• Pick up bikes and cycle to church from som
• Cycle round lake in non stop rain.
• Picnic under tree.
• Trek slip and sliding to waterfall.
• Guest house closed!
• Cycle through tunnel
• Hot choc at guest house
• Bus back
• Pasta and debate

Day 8 weds leaving

• Read
• Wander round town
• Ring
• Tidy pack and lunch
• Airport
• Flight

Festival time

This summer I experienced my first ever festival.  I was apprehensive about it not being a camper or someone interested in late nights and noisy music and thought it would be a cultural phenomenon that would pass me by.

We were invited to the festival to share in the 30th birthday celebrations of some friends.  We bought our tickets to the 'small festival' Cock and Bull which won brownie points for me as the money went to the charity, Jamie's Farm.  A group of 9 of us descended on the farm in Wiltshire for the weekend and were lucky enough to have glorious summer weather for the duration.

And... I didn't hate it!!  Admittedly the bits I liked best were the hanging out outside in the sun, but hey that's something.  I even did a little dancing though can't really say there was any of the music I enjoyed!

Here are my bullets of enjoyment:

• how our tents were in a little circle and we sat on picnic rugs and shared drinks together
• the goat that wondered round and how I first saw it when sitting at the top of the hill reading by myself and I saw it jogging up the hill to the accoustic tent and had no one to say, look at that, to!
• Reading generally on the grass, woohoo!
• the accoustic tent was nice
• watching the farm olympics with great events like hay bale toss
• listening to the talk about Jamie's Farm
• the food - yum yum yum!!!  lots of nice stalls of deliciousness
•  playing Kubb and ultimate nerf thrower
• John's story of falling asleep during the documentary 'gone curling' and then finding it was a q and a with the director and he was the only one in there!
• the camera obscura was cool

And the noteworthy if not enjoyable:

•  succesffully managing to go to the toilet four times in the weekend.  the first time i can remember using a portaloo.
• successfully showering
• being awake to listen to music at the main stage barn, although preferirng lying on the wool sacks with my eyes closed!

Happy birthday D&H!