Pix: Wandered away from the audio tour
To get to the Salzburg fortress, you have to ride a funicular, which a week-plus into staying here still makes me think of funnel cake, which I haven't seen in Salzburg under that name or any other. But this is all beside the point. What's more important is that taking funny cars to funny places seems to be a way of life there. It must change people.
The funicular I took Saturday started well off main streets. A few small signs pointed the way there. Guess you don't advertise the fortress.
Soon you were high above the city, as high as you would go. Right?
Wrong. Looking down on the location of the first picture-taking:
And the view from the new, higher spot, actually confirmed this time:
But life isn't all about heights. Sometimes, it's about cannons.
Or finding the British people on the required audio tour all too wordy.
Or questioning museum inspiration from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Or standing outside the organ room when the pipes blasted.
Then there was quick lunch atop the fortress, like lunch atop a tower, and I could just about see my room from there (now yellow dotted).
Finished lunch, I tried to see if I could spot my friends on the mountain.
August 4th, 2009 at 10:26 AM
I love "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"!!
August 4th, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Me too. Hoping to see cartoon animals playing soccer with Angela Lansbury in town before I leave.