Salzburg

Salzburg has a subdued charm to it. Most of everything there is to see here can be seen in a day, but there are some amazing day trips from here, including The Sound Of Music tour that visits all the scenery in the background of the movie. Coincidently, my hostel has daily screenings of the movie, which I attended having never seen the movie before. I'm not really a big fan of musicals, though.

One place that really caught my interest was this chess board. Some old, retired locals, along with some others, seemed to spend all day here playing each other. One seemed to be the kingpin, who spent way too much time there.... I think I could have taken him. Instead I spent a couple of hours just watching the games and listening to the Mozart and Vivaldi coming from the street performers playing in front of the cathedral to the right of this picture. It was fun. My company will definitely have something like this on site (if there ever is a site).

I met quite a few people at the hostel here. We all seemed to be on the same path doing Salzburg to Vienna to Budapest or the reverse. I'll probably run into them again, which would be cool. Despite all the places I've gone so far, I haven't run into anyone I've met again without prior knowledge that they'd be there.