Hallstatt has its feet in the water
and its back to the mountain
and all the falls - there're a lot of them - pour in channels through the town...
Its essential grace, even with all the tourists...
and the fact that Austrians still smoke like Vesuvius
seems to have remained intact
Cat ladder
We hiked up to the salt mines which kept the princes' coffers stocked for centuries and where Rupert built a cool tower.
The town is just built on the delta of all those falls whose waters were directed through the mines, piped down the mountain and boiled so the recrystallized salt could keep the Prince-Archbishops out of the poor house.
If you don't want to hike, you can pedal a swan
And the weissebier is excellent
Salzburg (salt town) is a small city with a fast green river
and apparently no suburbs. The buildings just bump up against green hills
In 1854 Franz Joseph opened the Mirabelle gardens to the public -
the Public
... and the fountains have the cleanest water we've ever seen in a city
We also found, in front of the cathedral, a stand of absolutely flawless fruits and vegetables
Went to a baroque string concert in the Marble Room of the Schloss Mirabelle... 
There are 1000 alpine huts in Austria
where Susan sat at intermission inappropriately swinging her feet
after which, it was too late for a restaurant, so we ate in our room
We drove out of Salzburg in swirling clouds and a steady rain but arrived in Kaprun in sun.
We drove out of Salzburg in swirling clouds and a steady rain but arrived in Kaprun in sun.
So we decided to take a walk
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Susan and I were also on the lookout for an Alpine Coaster
which in time seemed like a mistake
though Susan likes to drive faster than me
We made our way up the side of the Kitzsteinhorn
but you have to climb, in and out of cloud and sun
to a pair of high lakes
