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Saturday 25th February, 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.
 

COMMENTS

Ma o Pa says:
26th February 2006
Ni får väl göra en resa grundat på var alla komponister är födda och gå på konserter där!
Fredrik responds:
28th February 2006
Ja, vi får se. Tobbe var lite sugen på Verdi / Italien :)
Tobbes Mamma o Pappa says:
26th February 2006
Kul att ni få vara med om dessa äventyr!
Ha enfortsatt bra resa!

Tobbes Familj ! Vi ser fram emot att höra mer, när ni kommer hem.
Ha det bäst " ler"
Fredrik responds:
28th February 2006
Nu är det inte många timmar kvar på resan, lite tråkigt. Det blir nog inte så många fler äventyr innan vi är hemma i Sverige igen - men man vet aldrig :)
Mormor & Morfar says:
27th February 2006
Vettigt att inte spara på övernattningarna!
Skulle varit roligt att hänga med er på konserten.
Fortsatt trevlig resa-
Fredrik responds:
28th February 2006
Ja, privat rum är att föredra. Nu senast har vi dock haft tur då vi varit ensamma gäster i 6-bäddarsrummet!

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