Lets keep this short and sweet

We're having trouble finding differences in the different cities we are visiting, they are starting to look the same.  All have churches, squares and train stations.  Over the last few days we have visited Munich and Salzburg.

In Munich we stayed in a place that had the largest collection of posters pertaining to Munich, in our room there was a poster from the 1972 Summer Olympics.  We wondered around the city, ate and drank in various beer gardens.  Outside one beer garden was the remains of a cow that was cooked whole, this disturbed Leena somewhat.  Also of note were the large number of people drinking beer and wearing lederhosen.  Below is a picture of Craig having a little lunch time tipple.

Craig having a beer at the Hofbrauhaus

Now onto Salzburg.  Here we decided to rent bikes and the weather decided to rain, we did manage to ride around for about an hour though.  In our journey we did come across this house, some of you might recognise it.

Leena at Leopoldskron castle

Then in the evening we went to a chamber music concert because we happened to be here during the Salzburg Music Festival.  They played three pieces from Mozart, Erwin Schulhoff and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.  Leena was really impressed with the performance of the violinist Janine Jansen.  The audience seemed to agree because they gave them a standing ovation. 

Then for a change of pace we decided to go on an organised tour.  We went to the Eagle's Nest, a house built by Martin Bormann for Hitler's 50th birthday, atop Mt Kehlstein.  This is an interesting place to go as to get to it you have to catch a bus to an elevator, which was at the end of a hundred metre tunnel, then the elevator up to the house itself.  Now Hitler was claustrophobic and suffered from vertigo, so  to make it easier for him they made the elevator out of shiny brass to make it appear more roomy.  But when you get to the house from the terrace there is a drop down, so the place would have been like a torture chamber for Hitler and he only went there about twelve times.  Below are some pictures we took.