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THE 3 ENTRIES THAT WERE WRITTEN 2006-02-25 (chronological ordered)

 
 

Saturday February 25th, 2006

Europe > Austria > Salzburg

(travel diary) Mozart and the fort Hohensalzburg

Category: Bavaria, 2006
Started the day with picking up two tickets for the Mozart concert later today. We booked and payed for the tickets a month ago.
The concert is the opening concert for a series of concerts that will be played around the country in this 250 year jubillee of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Before the concert, we visited Hohensalzburg, one of Europe's biggest fortresses. It's situated on a little mountain and the city is built around it. The fortress gave us a pretty good view over the city. Tobias and I made a puppet movieNew window at a marionette museum up in the fortress.

We then visited Mozart Wohnhaus which is a house in central Salzburg where Mozart lived a couple of years before he moved to Vienna. Exhibitions may be a bit tiring and... well, this one was no exception. But it was pretty interesting to see and hear a couple of the instruments he had played on.

Then we bought some crisp bread, sliced cheese, yoghurt, Dr Oetcker's Müsli, banana, chocolate and mango juice. Tasty food that keeps the food account on a healthy level :)

We had still two hours before the concert started so we went to see the Haus Der Natur ("house of nature"). Most interesting here were the living reptiles and the grotesque looking fishes.

Afterward followed the concert. It was pretty good. The orchestra consisted of about thirty instrumentalists. I got some "benign shivers" (is that the correct words in english?) when they started to play. If you're going to a Mozart concert only one time in your life then do it in Salzburg :)

Two hours and a schnitzel semmel later = Zzzzzzzzz sleep time.
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Saturday February 25th, 2006

Europe > Austria > Salzburg

Festung Hohensalzburg

Category: Bavaria, 2006
Festung Hohensalzburg - One of Europe's largest fortresses. Built 1077. Modified several times[...]
One of Europe's largest fortresses. Built 1077. Modified several times depending on ruler.
Tags » fortresses
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Saturday February 25th, 2006

Europe > Austria > Salzburg

The Orchestra

Category: Bavaria, 2006
The Orchestra - The orchestra that played the Mozart tunes for us at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.[...]
The orchestra that played the Mozart tunes for us at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
Tags » concerts, Mozart, orchestra
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