AUSTRIA

We continue in a green and mountainous country, at the west the big Alps and at the east plain lands.

We don’t like to generalize but the people here are cooler, and the hitchhike is more difficult, although we were traveling like this in all the country.

The arrival to Austria was very funny; a Swiss girl picks us up in St. Gallen, and told us to stop before the border. After some time perhaps she thought again about it, and ask us if we have some drugs with us; with our negative replay, she was agree to cross the Rhein river and bring us to Austria.

Before to arrive to Innsbruck, our first destination, we stopped at Bludenz, where the Suchard factory is, and all the city smells chocolate. When we told to the Austrian that we eat it in Spain for Christmas they were very surprised…

Innsbruck is far from the Swiss border, to arrive, we had to cross deep valleys, and the city is located between big mountains, it is the perfect place to practice winter sports, something very popular in Innsbruck. At the environs there is a racecourse of jump sky of the last Winter Olympic Games.

The center of the Tirol capital city it’s small but very interesting, until 800 years back history, a part of the cathedral and the golden roof, the most beautiful is the settle of the city between the mountains.






The way to Salzburg took us long and interesting time, we went by different cars, meeting very different people; the first one was a young guy who has traveled a lot, and with many nice stories.

In our way we had to across a small piece of land of Germany, after that again in Austria, Salzburg it’s at the border.

We have to name Mozart at this city, his name, sculpture, picture…is represented everywhere in Salzburg, his birthplace city. Salzburg is full of churches, cathedral, and of course, the house where Mozart born, and the house where he lived.






With Jenny of HC, we went to Oberndorf, little bit north of Salzburg; this town is on the exterior side of the curve of a river; at the interior of the river, there is another town, but it’s Germany, we were crossing from Austria to Germany to have a cheaper ice cream and then back to Austria…The picture is the German town from Austria.

We didn’t want to arrive straight to Wien, so we made a short stop in St. Pölten, it’s not much interesting, but we were walking there with Johannes of HC, who showed us all the city; the small tower of the picture is a monument dedicated to the disease of Plague.

Sorine, a Romanian man who works here, picked us up and brought us to Wien as a taxi, because he put the address of the HC member, Maria, on the GPS, and brought us just in front of the door of her house. We were very lucky to arrive like this to such a big city as is Wien.

This first day we went for a walk to introduce us in this beautiful city; we approached to the centre passing nearby Belvedere palace and its gardens…

During the days that we were here, not only we visited the city, we were very lucky to go with Maria to our first Opera concert; the act performs, Othello, was full of different characters, and was very interesting. Even as the real fans, we waited to the artist outside who sign us autographs.

In Wien there are many places to see…walking through the centre you can look where you want, always there are something surprising and nice to see. Here there are some pictures that we share with you.