Salzburg – Be Back Whenever

9/2025 – Munich and Salzburg

We made a 2 week visit to Munich and Salzburg with friends, Steve and Christina. Munich and Oktoberfest was the first stop – fun as always!

This is a surfer on the river in Munich.

My favorite city in Europe, Salzburg, was the next stop. We took the train from Munich to Salzburg; we spent 4 days visiting some favorite locations including the Augustiner Monastery for their beer and a picnic in the garden. One day we all took a tour to a salt mine – not the same one we visited 35 years ago. The city was celebrating St. Ruppert’s festival with music, crafts, beer, sausages.

The Hohensalzburg in my favorite European city.

We visited a salt mine in our lovely miners overalls!

10/2023 – On to Salzburg and Stuttgart

I love Salzburg and wanted to spend some time there. We took the train from Munich and hung out for 4 days. We first visited 32 years ago on our European camping trip – not much has changed. By dumb luck we hit the St. Rupert festival for their patron saint and founder. Surprise! It involves beer. At a nice market, I found some handcrafted jewlery to buy.

Hohensalzburg with the Mirabell Gardens, famous from the Sound of Music.

This little guy was in The Sound of Music, too. We did NOT do the tour.

My favorite place for a beer – Steigl – overlooking the rooftops of Salzburg.

The last time we visited Helbrun Palace was 32 years ago. The tours are now self-guided. We could spend as much time as we wanted looking at the water powered creatures built by one of the many Archbishop Princes of Salzburg.

The water holds up the little hat and changes its height.

From Salzburg we took the train to Stuttgart, home to the 2nd largest “Oktoberfest” in Germany. It is officially called a Volksfestival – we assume that “Oktoberfest” is copyrighted. Deutchesbahn was actually on time!