跨年之旅 08/09 Europe trip part 5

Day 7
We arrived in Salzburg around noon time, we sms-ed Sarah (our first host in Salzburg who is going to host WY & AY, me n Jackie will goto our host-Florian's place only in the late evening) and she agreed to let us put our luggages at her place first :)
Without wasting much time, we stated our half day trip in Salzburg!!! :D
Salzburg is a small city, under protection of UNESCO. We had a map (offered kindly by Sarah) in hand and explored the city aimlessly at first :P.
We enjoyed the breath-taking sceneries of this small but exotic town, furthermore it was covered with snow on the day of our arrival! Double beauty! ^.^ This town is surrounded with rocky hills, just 500m outside the Sarah's apartment we can already see a rocky cliff wall!
I also just found out that the movie – Sounds of music was actually filmed here, right in Salzburg!!! (although I have never watched this movie, but I know it is well-famous!)


There is a river dividing the old and new town (which is a common sight in most city I suppose, for eg Budapest, and even my hometown, Ipoh :P ). Of course, the sight along the river was even more awesome!!! We spent some time cam-whoring there. At last, after spending much time drooling over the natural beauty of Salzburg, we decided our first stop of our visit – Mozart's residence!!!

Unfortunately, we didn't enter into the Mozart's residence because of the not-so-cheap entrance tickets!!! Well, we still got to snap a picture in front of it :) and spent some € in the souvenirs shop which is BAD :P
The chocolate, called Mozart's ball, is very famous in Austria!!!
Next stop, the old town itself!!! You have to visit the old town and you will know why Salzburg is under UNESCO protection :)
We strolled along the little streets of the old town, and realised it is getting dark soon, hence without wasting much time, we went to visit the cathedral. Well, it was like any other European Cathedral I think :) but I lighted up a candle for blessings inside for 1.5€ :D that made my visit there special! >.<

Then we went to the back of the cathedral, anticipating to have a look at the gigantic chess board! To our disappointment, the ground is covered with snow, so as the chess board; the chess pieces are chained up at the side. We didn't just leave of course without cam-whoring with them to compensate our losses >.<.

Just right above the hilltop in front of us was the fortress, but the girls were too tired to climb up there on foot, and the cable car to go up there cost 30++€ !!! Hence, we gave it up but chose to glance it from afar :P.

Salzburg still shines at night :)
Now, dinner time!!! or lunch+dinner since we hadn't eaten for quite some time, we hunted for a good place to treat our stomach for almost 1 hour and finally we found this particular restaurant, and we were glad we went there :).
It was quite crowded, sign of good food! :D nice cozy atmosphere, and of course finger-licking good food!!! I had myself a cup of hot gluewine (the one I had in Munich), and a set of pork knuckle!!! :D a very scrumptious meal!!!

It was time to get back to our host place. We went back to Sarah's apartment, greeted her goodbye and took our (me & jackie's) luggage and headed to Florian's place! We love Florian's apartment, very spacious and we had a room to ourselves! :D Florian is a very cool guy, he immediately jumped into agreement with our suggestion of going out to have a drink with Sarah and WY+AY. Well, what can I say, it turned out to be a blast!!! 6 of us, 2 locals+4 foreigners took the light away in this Irish pub, we had so much fun together and attracted numerous attention towards our table! :D Even Florian and Sarah mentioned that it was the craziest night they have ever had in such a long time >.<

we continued to a club after LOADS of beer in the irish pub and shaked our butt off!!! What a wonderful and awesome night it was!!!
P/S: 2 of us (not me >.<) suffered hang over the next day on the train to Vienna...hahaha)