Sunday, December 30, 2018

After another delightful breakfast at the Gasthaus, a visit to the local church and a walk in the snow, we decided to drive to Salzburg, Austria for the day.  In Salzburg we toured a museum/castle and walked along the decorated streets of Salzburg.

Early morning snow in The Alps

Our walk around the village

Norm, Jan and Trisha

Visit to the local church

In the graveyard of the church

On our way to Salzburg, Austria

The Museum-Castle

Through the graveyards to the Museum

It was very cold waiting to get into the Museum

Cold and windy

Overlooking the City of Salzburg

Salzburg from the castle

Trisha and Norm

Norm had to look at the cannon

Mozart statue (we also saw this several years ago
when we visited Salzburg with Marc and Suzanne)

The beautiful decorated streets of Salzburg

Christmas decorations in Salzburg

The museum-castle on the hill that we visited

Church 

The decorated streets of Salzburg 

Saturday afternoon in Berchtesgadens

After the Salt Mine adventure we drove to the town Centrum in Berchtesgadens to wonder around the city.  We experienced their "Christmas Markt" and a delightful coffee-dessert break later in the day.

Entering the Berchtesgaren Advent

Norm, Trish and Jan

Enjoying the Gluewein and hot Apple Cider

Norm bought a bag of potato chips

Hitler's "hide away" on top of the mountain

Listening to an "oop-pa" band

Our afternoon dessert in a very popular meeting place

Evening lights of the city

Evening beauty

Saturday, December 29, 2018

After our wonderful breakfast at the Ramsau Gasthaus we traveled to the "Salt Mines" in Berchtesgadens.  After purchasing the tickets and waiting in line for our time to "dress" in the authentic salt mine uniforms we were ready for an adventure!  We first had to board a "train" to take us deep into the mine. Since no pictures were allowed we had to take them only before and after our tour.

The train that we rode to go into the mine into the side of the
mountain over 1/2 a mile where the salt mining is taking place

Suiting up in the salt mine uniforms

I could not believe how the woman  could look at us and
immediately know what size suit we needed!

Ready to go

Waiting in line again

Here we go to "board" the train

One of the two slides to get us further down into the salt mine
Believe me it was an adventure!

On our way out of the mine

In front of one of the mining buckets

Jan riding on one mining equipment

Norm with a "miner"

Trish in a mining bucket

Norm & Trish in front of the Salzbergwerk

Friday, December 28 & 29, 2018

On Friday December 28th we drove to the little town of Ramsau where we stayed while visiting Berchtesgadens in southeastern Baveria.  What an excellent time we had there visiting several very interesting places and events.

After arriving (late) Norm and Trisha went into town for a bite to eat.
Trish got a "kick" out of Norm counting out his money to pay!

Eating in Berchtesgaden Friday evening

Breakfast at the Ramsau Gashaus

What a fantastic breakfast

Overlooking the village

Beautiful mountains

Trisha 

Overlooking the village

On our short walk