Austria - Salzburg

 1974

Thursday, 28th March

We awoke in a thunderstorm with two men peering in at us. Stopped for breakfast outside Munich. Weather improved and we had a very good, mistake free journey through the rest of Germany and Austria which looked very pretty. Went over the Wurzen Pass to Yugoslavia which was one in four in some places. Spent the night at a camping site at Jesenice, just over the border. Being early in the season we were the only tourists there and we watched their television and besides Tom and Jerry they had frequent commercials advertising Communism.

On the road through Austria

2025

Monday 26th May

We awoke to more rain (it rained all day yesterday) and I also have a cold.  Neither of these bode well for sightseeing today.  We decided to visit the Natural History Museum in the morning which although was not a patch on the one we visited in Miami last year was well worth the visit.  On our way part of the road was closed because there were two men cleaning the cliffs high above us which we were told they did once a year.  We rested in our extremely comfortable apartment in the afternoon.  In the evening we took the cable car up to the fortress high above the city where we had bought tickets for dinner and a concert.  Both were excellent.  We wished we were spending a little longer here but tomorrow we are moving on.

Cleaning the rock

It is hard to believe they are not alive

 The Cloak of Conscience

Tuesday 27th May

After a breakfast of Austrian cheese pie, we caught a train to Graz, a four hour journey.  We had a meal at a cafe as we had a 2 hour wait for our next train to Zagreb.  This was also a four hour journey but we had a compartment to ourselves which made it more comfortable.  The hotel in Zagreb was just across the road from the station which was a welcome sight at 10.30pm.

Graz Train Station

Sunset over Slovenia