First day of summer here and it was just like a Brisbane spring, very warm and sunny, I'm guessing about 28 deg C. We had a lovely breakfast at the hotel and then got bus to Hellbrunn Palace where they have the delightful “trick fountains”. Our tour guide was amusing telling us about this 400 hundred year old palace that once belonged to a bishop who amused himself by making his guests very uncomfortable. The chairs had holes in them and the bishop would turn on the water soaking his guests where they sat and they couldn't get up. Other water features were marvelous as well. We got a little wet at times as the guide turned on some of the fountains. I think he got the same amusement as the bishop once did. We didn't mind. It was fun and cooled us down on this hot day.
We got the bus back to town and went to the Hohensalzburg Fortress which towers over Salzburg. The views from there are fantastic. The fortress was never conquered in battle but given over to Napoleon when he came through. We then looked at the Mozart museum which is located in the building in which he was born - interesting.
We had a delicious dinner in the hotel restaurant and then attended to mundane things like washing some clothes.
Something that has really struck me is the way the local people seem to take their dogs everywhere. Today on our tour of Hellbrunn someone had brought his dog along. When you walk the streets here people are taking their dogs with them, not just small dogs, big ones too. You see lots of suspicious looking stains on the footpath and even some puddles (but not worse than that yet). Some shops even have a small rail outside with a sign (in German) “tie up your dogs here”. Very different.
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