My name is Marion Vermazen. I am a traveler, hiker, reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, YouTuber, Spanish and French language student, knitter, weaver and genealogist.
Innsbruck in western Austria is in a stunning setting. It is surround d by snow capped mountains. Today we walked to the train station in Salzburg.
Caught a train to Innsbruck and then walked to our hotel.
Our hotel, the Goldener Adler is just down the street from this building. It is called the Golden Roof but it was actually covered with gilt copper tiles by the Emperor Maximilian in 1500.
We explored the town a bit enjoying the great weather and had beer and pizza for dinner.
Where else but in Salzburg would the hotel TV have as one of the options on the main menu the movie The Sound of Music!
Our plan today was to do the Rick Steves walking tour of Salzburg. We started out at the Mozart Statue.
Outside the cathedral the angels on the facade seem to be crowning the statue of Mary in the courtyard.
The cathedral is beautiful and it has three organs!
From the cathedral we climbed up to the bluffs overlooking the town. It was a beautiful day with the sun shining.
We walked along the ridge top. The birds were singing and there was lots of green grass and wild flowers. The views were stunning.
We stopped for some fresh bread on the way back.
I think the highlight of dinner was my steak tartare. It was very good.
One of the things about traveling for two months is that occasionally you need to take a bit of a break. This morning we slept in, worked on the New York Times crossword and took it easy. We went out for coffee and pastries and brought them back to the room. We finished the crossword and read our books.
Eventually we decided to go out and explore Salzburg. We walked along the river and through the park to the Mozart Museum.
The museum was interesting but a bit disappointing because it was small and fairly expensive.
It was, however, a stunningly beautiful day and we thoroughly enjoyed walking the streets.
For dinner we had an elegant dinner at the Hotel Sacher.
And finally we had the famous Sacher Torte.
The train ride from Vienna west to Salzburg took almost three hours. We rode through lush green countryside.
We walked from the train station to our hotel in Salzburg.
We are staying at the Hotel Goldgasse. As we were unpacking we realized that we left the cord for our USB charging hub in the hotel in Vienna. So we got directions at the front desk and took a bus to a shopping mall 20 minutes away. We found the electronics store and bought a new hub.
Dinner was great. We had potato soup.
The grill plate.
And finally had apple streusel. 
Today we took the train from Budapest back to Vienna because tonight we had tickets to a concert at the Vienna Opera House. The concert was by the opera singer Edita Gruberova.
The performance was quite extraordinary. I enjoyed it immensely. Here you can see the people in the standing room section. You can’t buy standing room tickets in advance. People line up the afternoon before the show.
Ms. Gruberova sang a variety of songs for 35 minutes. Then there was a 25 minute intermission. She sang for another 30 minutes or so and then there were at least 6 encores.
Afterwards we took the subway back to our hotel.
