Having traveled to Mondsee, it seemed that in the year of Mozart's 250th birth anniversary, it would be most negligent not to visit Salzburg. And so, we hopped on the bus and traveled there to spend two days and a night in the town of Mozart's birth.

While I was still planning our visit in Canada, I had all kinds of plans: seeing a Mozart opera, visiting Obersalzburg, attending a lunch hour concert, and joining a guided tour of some of the sites in Salzburg. But, luckily good sense prevailed. The only actually prearranged ... (more)