Legally Blonde's Proceedings

Often my trip planning begins with a wild hare.  I will think to myself "I want to visit the Alhambra".  Next thing you know I've booked a flight to Spain and then I'll build a trip around that.  My Europe 2024 trip began with the wild hare of me thinking "I want to go to the Christmas markets on Lake Wolfgangsee" and then I build this whole trip around that.   Lake Wolfgangsee is about 35 kilometers outside of Salzburg.  There are 3 towns around Lake Wolfgangsee that have Christmas markets, but they are only held on certain days, so I had to plan to be there on one of those specific days.  I took a bus (again, building my confidence with that mode of travel) out to St. Gilgen on the morning of December 22nd. It was very charming.  It has a gondola you can take up in the mountains, but I decided to skip that since I'd checked that box a couple of times already.  I just wandered for a bit and made my way down to the lake to purchase tickets for the...

December 20th I left Innsbruck on an early train to Salzburg.  I intended to spend the morning going out to Hall, Austria, but it was raining.  I decided to just head on to Salzburg.  I had previously been to Salzburg, but looked forward to this portion of my trip because I planned to do a few things I didn't get to do on my first visit. I took a taxi from the train station and was able to check in my hotel early.  I headed out and discovered the wind was really blowing and was quite cold! First thing, I was headed for lunch.  I wanted to go to a restaurant I visited my first time there and have the Weiner Schnitzel.  I got distracted by a Christmas store which had tons of the Salzburg eggs.  After I took this pic I saw a no picture sign, so enjoy the illegal photo. I didn't allow myself to buy any eggs because I want to come back for a spring market sometime, so I saved that purchase for later.  Of course I bought a Christmas ornament and then mo...