Tuesday afternoon in the Brewery

We had planned to visit the Augustiner Braustuble for lunch but ...after a long walk to get there it didn't open until 3!!
We decided to look up other beer halls in the area, took kindle a while to open cos it was reading -12deg. (Arven kept it inside his jacket for the rest of the trip.) We found Baren Wirt, it sold Augustiner beer and it was open for lunch.
Huge portions of pork and dumpling, tasty and filling.
We headed back to the beer hall, it was very cool.4 big halls with long tables and shelves of Steins, all different sizes. So you choose your stein, pay at the kiosk and then head over to the guy at the barrel with the taps and get your beer.
There was a fountain where you could rinse the Stein first. Lots of stalls selling snacks but no food really so it was just as well we'd had our lunch first.
There was an outside beer garden for the summer but no singing, dancing or music allowed. It was all in Austrian but when we were looking at it a guy came over to explain it to us. Everyone was very friendly.
We walked back by the Mirabelle gardens, Unicorn Statues all covered in snow....it was just lovely.
On our walk back we saw the famous Sacher Hotel and Cafe. At 6 o'clock the Glockenspiel played, it was beautiful, snow and music on Valentines day in Salzburg.
We tried a restaurant with a fox sign for dinner, even though we had a mega lunch we were hungry. It has to be the cold weather...this place was a lbit more touristy than the one with the monkey on the sign. Goulash for Arven and shrimp salad for M. Strudel to finish, which was amazing.
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