Berchtesgadener Land

This was the end of our Italian journey and the start of a lot of driving... but surprisingly, I loved Italy, and honestly, I might go back. I know some areas we didn't get to go, which I would love to! But this is a very exciting trek as well, a very beautiful drive. Unfortunately, I was asleep for a lot of it... but it was beautiful from what I saw. Even living in alberta and seeing them at home something is so magical about mountains, and these ones were spectacular. When we hit Salzburg, it was pouring rain and cloudy. And of course, I booked the walking tour... during the tour, I learned that my windbreaker is only water resistant as the rain was finally hard enough to soak through. But the tour was called the sound of music tour because it was filmed in Salzburg but the guide barely talked about it. Turns out everyone in Salzburg hates the sound of music. We actually learned a lot of cool history about the city and how small it really is. Turns out it was a very clean/disease free city back in the day because the archbishop would flood the city every Sunday to clean it. I saw where Mozart was born and that his sister was just as good and performed/traveled with him. And he was on a lot of drugs and opioides (meth) to get through. So when he was on the road for 17 years high on all sorts of drugs, it makes sense we wrote like over 700 songs. We also went to a palace built by an archbishop for his "girlfriend" and 10 plus kids. He would even send letters to the pope, his uncle begging to let him marry her. Which, for obvious reasons, can't happen. So he just lived with her and made a shit ton of kids. But the palace was amazing. He was obsessed with symmetry, so everything was perfectly symmetrical. They even built the garden with the castle on the hill perfect in the middle of the background. Also, it turns out every archbishop that came into power would build a bigger and grander church and palace to show how powerful he is and one up the guy from before. So Salzburg has around 45 churches in one of the smallest cities I have been to so far. The white one after Mozart house is actually the university chapel, and the university beside it is the most basic building ever. You can kinda see it above the umbrella. After the tour, it stopped raining, of course... I walked back with Nick and had this Austrian hotdog that was only here, and I didn't know what it was, but it was the best hotdog I have ever eaten. We even got a pretzel, but it was a sweet one with Nutella, which was disappointing because it was salty or a pretzel at all, just a pastry. Me and Nick were going to have a nice heart to heart, and then this random dude in our group just walked up and joined us. He is always around.. but then we went back to the hostel, and I met up with ethan and another guy who didn't do the tour and gave them the tour myself. I would make a good tour guide. We also went to one of the oldest currently maintained and used graveyard. And it was so strange seeing graves from 2023 and the 1500s. As well as weird chapels built into the rock wall. As we walked around, the church bells were going too, and it was very spooky, and I was waiting for something to happen. Total vibe. Then it was a simple dinner and back to the hostel, Ethan went out to party, but Nick was chilling with a group of the gang, so I decided to stay with them. And I got to steal a whole bunch of the schnapps from them, the coffee was very good. After we got a little drunk, Nick and I climbed this latter that was on the wall, which was hilarious and totally would have gotten us kicked out, but when I got to the top, there was just 12 bottles of wine sitting there... and one was unopened, so you know what I had to do... take it. Then we went back and hung out and met up with ethan for a while, too. Good day, for sure.Читать далее