Well, we think the jet-lag and big Christmas Eve finally caught up to us. We had hoped to wake up sort of early today and typically we wake up early in the morning on our own. Not today. 10:45. Yep. We slept REALLY late. By the time we showered and got ready for the day we thought we had time to catch a quick breakfast before our Lake and Mountain Tour. We couldn’t find anything open serving breakfast and ended up on our tour bus heading out to the country side with a coffee to go. We had always heard great stories about the surrounding lakes and mountains and thought the Panorama Tours Lake and Mountain tour sounded like a good way to spend Christmas since most of the places are closed in Salzburg. It did not disappoint us. We first went to the tiny village of St. Wolfgangsee and were able to walk around the village and visit it’s great church. The is a small church but the design, carvings and woodwork were some of the most impressive we had ever seen. It had used to be a pilgrimage destination for Catholics but now seems to be more of a destination for tourists. Afterwards, we ended up in the town of St. Gilgen and were able to stop for coffee and cake at the famous Café Dallman. Apparently this is the place to go as the walls were lined with celebrities and the President of China had just been there a few weeks before.
Once back in Salzburg we had reservations for a extremely nice Christmas dinner at the St. Peter Stilfskelter but since we hadn’t eaten all day and it would require us to go back to the apartment and change in to very formal clothing we opted to go back to Pizza Il Sole where we were greeted by the excited owner. We ended up meeting a nice family from Redondo Beach California at the table next to us. Maybe the red wine is too good since we keep meeting people at dinner. Anyway, we said by to all and ended the night with a short walk through the city and were able to call our families and wish them a Merry Christmas.
Here is a picture of Kelly with the owner of Pizza Il Sole.
Tonight we hope to get to bed early to get a earlier start on a full day in Salzburg before we are off to Budapest and Vienna.
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