Tuesday 10th August

 

10/08/04 - Day 38 (.... yeah.)

Breakfast: 2 granola rolls butter, strawberry jam, toast, coffee, 2 bowls of cereal topped with natural and fruits of the forest yoghurt salami, cheese, pork meat, milk, tea, hot chocolate.

Need I go on?

So, an early rather large breakfast gave us the strength for the morning. / did Morverschaus while Brian appraised our search for a meadowy hill.

Mozart shailer: Nice to see the house - very nice apartment. Saw his first violin, concert viola and 2 pianos. And there was a good exhibition on opero during his time.

However...

Too much info on his parents before they met each other (who cares?) and his sister and the town (church, local cannochas) at the time. The shift about his family I already knew, there was no amazing "must see" and you could see He(a)ld struggled to fill the rooms. Too many portraits and enough about the music. I expected a guided description about the development of his music and why he was famous - what he did that nobody else did with instruments manuscripts and music accompanying my tour. It isn't a museum for music lovers but a museum for people who feel they should go in because he always is famous and they can tell their friends. Heyne they can tell their friends. Keynebeen there. Japanese girls squeling over the pretty buttons from his coat.... and they clearly spens more time in the souvenir shop than the museum. I wouldn't have minded if it hadn't been €6.8 and had taken longer than an hour to look round. Very disappointing and I think I'd learn more from studying his music myself.

And so we jumped on a bus to the tram station, €1.60 for a 5min ride! And headed to Zell am See, our "away from the town and the tourists and a chance to be at one with nature and run around in a field trip. The train ride was truly spectacular another one of my sight highlights hills, greenness, houses with flower boxes and then mountains, higher than imaginable with a bright blue fast flowing river running right through them. When I've seen pictures of Austria I always thought that that somehow it would never look as impressive in real life. I kept thinking as if someone had stuck a huge postcard on the train windows. And so my search for the perfect sight began...

The 1 1/2 train ride was sight after sight like this (but with a bit more colour) (and perspective) and I never gotbored of it. Zell was a bit touristy (quite a lot of English surprisingly). If you're into water sports its the place to be - people who live around here are so lucky - they have so much to look at and do. We decided to go for a Wander up a hill, reaching (just before death kicked in) a meadowy clearing where we could look down at the lake with the mountains in the background. A very pleasant day and I felt mildly healthier if a little dirtier. We rushed back for littered requiem in the Cathedral (where b. was married), which was not too long, not too short and was pulled out. Truly beautiful, especially is quite a building - we agreed the sopranoes could have been angels, their voices were so perfect. How to expensive Mozart the proper way. Salzburg is ok but I felt our stay gave us an insight into the beauty of what surrounds it.