As I sit here by the window in our hotel in Alstadt (Old Town) Salzburg listening to the rain coming down on cobbled streets....I am tiredly thinking of the wonderful day my friend Judy and I have had wandering around this beautiful city.
Yesterday we walked and walked and walked through lovely Munich ..so stylish and wonderful that everyone who visits seems to travel quietly and talk in hushed tones. Perhaps it is that there were so many Middle Eastern people there and as they walk around in their robes with women and children behind them...they don't talk. Well neither did the Germans and other visitors to Munich.
Judy and I found ourselves talking in hushed tones as well as to disturb this quiet would have been a shame. It was however strangely somber and odd.
Today however we left quiet Munich and replaced it with symphonies and music of this Austrian city. The 24th of July is the kick-off for music season and there are stages and musicians everywhere. Too bad we have to leave tomorrow as we could have attended so many of the concerts and operas being performed.
Our hotel sits at the edge of Old Town and along the edge of the river so when we don't here the
sound of the rain....we can hear the music with a background of river flowing through it.
Judy and I love this city. We took the funicular up to the Salzburg Castle and toured the beautiful rooms. Then we sat along the castle wall and enjoyed beer and a huge Austrian pretzel in the afternoon sun while it too glittered off the snow of the nearby Alps. Are we in heaven?
The greens are greener...the flowers seem more colorful and the many tourists here seem so interested in the finer things of life. Not many Sandis here.....this is all about culture.
Actually there are not many Americans either.....but lots of Europeans enjoying the history of their forefathers.
The rain is quieting now....and in the distance echoing off the buildings ....somewhere an orchestra plays. Music is everywhere!
It is too beautiful here.
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