So, now for the trip to Salzburg...

Took us an hour and a half to drive there through some beautiful countryside. Brendon is now a pro driver on the autobahn, topping out at 180 in our Opel stationwagon. Yes, that's right we have a station wagon and Brendon's wishing he could bring his BMW over from the States to really drive fast, but alas, it is not to be.

We got to Salzburg at about 11am, figured out the park and ride system in Salzburg and took the bus to the city center. Salzburg is located in a beautiful area, on the river Salzach, sits between the Kapuzinerberg and Mönchsberg mountains and has some of the best architecture I've seen for a town of it's size (150,000ish). We visited the Festung Hohensalzburg (Fortress) first, which is one of the biggest castles in Europe, on a hill above the city and dates back to the 1077. After that, we visited St. Peter's cemetary and the Catacombs, which were pretty cool and then went on to the Salzburger Dom (cathedral).

After returning to the car at 4:45, we had a lovely drive until we hit some nasty traffic. It took us 2 hours and 20 minutes to get home, only 45 minutes longer than it took to get there and have been told by friends that EVERYONE is returning to Munich from weekend trips at about that time and traffic always sucks. So, yay, really looking forward to more traffic jam weekends in our future! ;-)

Salzburg was really beautiful though and well worth it. I'd recommend it to anyone who gets a chance to go.