are you planning a trip to Austria? I've recently visited this stunning country
for a short five-day journey and in this series of six videos we're going to be
sampling just a fraction of what this country has to offer - in the previous
video we visited the capital city Vienna a city full of beautiful and varied
architecture we checked out some of the more popular tourist sites such as st.
Stephen's Cathedral and the Sacher Cafe as well as visiting some lesser-known spots
such as the flak tower where we delved deeper into Austria's past. We're going
to be visiting the breathtaking Hallstatt in the next video as well as
covering some useful points in relation to getting around Austria and this time
we're in Salzburg
so good morning everyone and welcome back today in this video we are
continuing our wonderful beautiful journey across Austria we've left the
capital city of Vienna on the train and we've arrived in the city of Salzburg
very close to the German border it's the middle of January it's icy it's frosty
there are stunning wintery scenes surrounding me hopefully we can check
some of those out in this video Salzburg it's famous for Mozart The
Sound of Music spectacular architecture as well as a
multitude of examples of Austrian cuisine this video's very much for those
of you that maybe are in Salzburg for one day and you're just looking for a
selection of things not absolutely everything you could possibly get up to
so let's get going so we'll start off where I just film that little intro bit
that we are in the Aldstadt this is the old city or the old town and it's
actually a UNESCO World Heritage Site and just look in the distance what was I
saying about wintery scenes you know Hills mountains in the distance with
that beautiful dusting of snow over the top you know how more Austrian can you
get you know and look around here I love the architecture and artwork on the
buildings as well and we're in the cathedral Court or as well so there are
bells chiming in the distance and all around me that is the fortress up there
we're gonna go up there in a little bit and we're gonna have some food as well
let's explore
right it's now snowing you know what one of the things I enjoy the most about
travel is learning about history hopefully you feel the same way and of
course Austria has an immense history in relation to world war two the nazis
Adolf Hitler and one interesting thing that I've read about before I came here
was that in this very Square there was a public Nazi book burning book burning
has been done over history not just in relation to Nazis when a power a
dominant power in a country wants to maintain their ideology so obviously if
there are other people that are going against those ideologies they want to
quash that immediately so book burnings often occurred and I think it's really
interesting how censorship in that way still happens nowadays so a completely
unrelated example I have many English students in Russia and they tell me a
lot about censorship in modern media in terms of the Internet online that kind
of thing so it still happens there are still ideologies that want to be
maintained there are still powers in this world that want to quash anything
that goes against what they believe and even though it's not to do with the
Nazis so the out stat is beautiful and it's in better in the winter with a bit
of snow lovely
mozart's birthhouse is located on getriedegasse, the main
street in the middle of salzburg it's just up here on the left and of course
there are a plethora of high-end shops down here Massimo Dutti you have Gucci and
Prada as well around the corner and look up there on these buildings what they
called friezes right I'm probably pronouncing that wrong bit you know what
I mean
right let's let the guys go past with the noisy suitcase thank you very much here
is a Mozart's birth house it's yellow there's a big Austrian flag
outside and this might surprise you but I have an a-level in German from 20
years ago presenting on a level is it's basically further education after you
leave school you write 18 just for two years however it's been 20 years but I'm
still basically reading so Mozart's birth house in this house and Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart was born 27th January geboren is the past participle of to be born
let's kind of look inside
wonderful wintery scenes, so Mozart's birth house was it worth it for
12 euros yes it was I think I can now say that I've been in the house
that Mozart was born in you go into his schlafzimmer (his bedroom) and also the
wohnzimmer (living room) he was born in the schlafzimmer
and he learn everything about Mozart things that I learned the fact that he
could play the violin the piano before the age of five which is exceptional
because really think about nowadays I think music simps have been forgotten I
think creativity in schools in education is extremely important because it
teaches you not necessarily just about the instrument but also about being
creative in life and working hard to achieve something because having played
the clarinet I know how difficult it is to be good at it and it takes time it
takes perseverance practice makes perfect so I think I have every respect
for anyone involved in music and creativity in that way and then
obviously I couldn't film in there so I had to be covert about it so apologies
for the terrible shots but you know I don't really get arrested by the
security guards so when I look at the snow wonderful and we're now going to go
somewhere else I need to check my list
we're heading to this Salzburg cathedral now if it's anything like the ones in
Vienna it should be amazing who's just up ahead of me up there you can't see
because the lighting
(music)
without something like the Cathedral snob when I walked in I've slightly
underwhelmed in terms of the lighting the level of extravagance it seemed
quite dull but actually when he walked further in it's exceptional the pictures
do not do it justice just looking up all right now it's like a painting it's
beautiful it almost doesn't look real then again just like I said in Vienna
how did this happen how did this get painted it's exquisite
as I said it doesn't do it justice that's why you have to come here to
experience it yourself
beautiful how more wintry can you get walking through Salzburg in January
in the snow, it's actually a lot heavier than it looks on camera I think I want
to go up to the fortress there is a funicular but it doesn't seem to be
running I don't know if we can walk up there by foot it's quite far so you can
walk up to the fortress if you want to know more information about it just
check down in the description there'll be some links or some writing whatever I
choose to put there when I edit it and just look at this it's absolutely
magical isn't it this is like my dream you know I'm from
England so you know I'm used to snow but something like this is just wonderful
you know to come to Salzburg in January in this snow obviously be careful coming
up this hill especially if you're wearing shoes that aren't particularly
grippy and like mine so I could end up on my ass but just look at this man
it's wonderful snowing and look at the view out over Salzburg which we'll see
more of in a second when a guy on the top stunning
okay.i toes to get the basic ticket which is 7 euro 17 the people in front
of me got one for 15 euros I assume there are other things you can do while
you're here and but I'm just gonna explore around the fortress so let's go
there are helpful steps but even so it's still difficult to climb up but I think
I'm probably safer on the steps that I'm like you know the ice rink that is that
slope
hmm I was hoping I might look relatively
glamorous in this video I was sorely mistaken but you know what who cares
because I'm a medieval fortress because I think it's medieval in the snow in
Salzburg brilliant I thought it would be you know I'm not in Mexico I'd like
three 3000 meters up I don't know how I am I need to check that but yeah it was
a bit more difficult because of the slippy slidey and you know I feel like
I'm in like medieval times or whenever it was fortress there's an audio guide
at all museums staterooms concerto chamber music we're gonna continue
having a look around this fortress here we have a cannon outside look at that
snow topped buildings winter insults burg this is what I came here for so
lucky that it's snowing today I'm so pleased
I don't know about you people but this is exactly what I came to Salzburg for
spectacular
right as in the previous video it's a couple of days later I've been to Hallstatt
which will be in the next video that was an interesting experience to say the
least all we would feel very soon but today
we're gonna end this video by having some food I've just been to a fantastic
Konditorei down there basically like a high-end cafe dessert bakery
place if I remember correctly for my German GCSE back in the day and I don't
want to film in there just like in the last video because you know people are
look in there and it's quite high-end so hoping to sit down and I'll let you know
what I had it was amazing
it's a lovely sunny day and that's about today beautiful blue skies wonderful and
when it comes to food I mentioned in the Vienna video that I was going to have
Wiener schnitzel in this video however upon further thought I thought to myself
we've all heard of Venus schnitzel we've all heard of apple strudel I want to
show dishes in these videos that I didn't know about before I got here so
potentially you may not know about them either if you're as equally as I'm
cultured as I am and when I went into this Konditorei
it was very quaint very elegant chandeliers nice decor so that's why I
didn't really want to film in there speaking because you know it's peace and
quiet it's a high-end establishment and from the menu added bit of translation
in my head basically it's a family-run place that has a strong tradition in
relation to passing its recipes from generation down to generation that's why
they can guarantee a high standard of food so I had Nockerl which is kinda
like a dessert it's kind of like a lunch the waiter was telling me that you can
have a breakfast agreement for lunch you could have it as a dessert it doesn't
really matter and it's meant to represent the Baroque architecture and
the representation of just the feel of Salzburg particularly the mountains in
the distance so it very much looks like the mountains in Salzburg with the
dusting of snow on the top and it was quite possibly one of the most
impressive dishes I've had in a long time the most imprint interesting dishes
I should say because it's made of eggs flour things like that it's like a
souffle feel so it's very light despite being absolutely huge that
serving was for two people obviously I ate the whole thing like a Gannett yeah
very likes souffle like and the initial taste was absolutely of egg it almost
tasted like scrambled eggs in a way with a pancake feel as well and underneath
there were there was fruit like berries I think it might have been cranberries
which added to the taste as well and it was fantastically light I didn't feel
full up after eating it I could eat that again to be honest and it really sums up
the feeling I get from Salzburg it was exquisite it was delightful it was
divine which are three words I would use to describe the city
I loved it so summarizes Salzburg via the medium of food I've really enjoyed my
time here I hope you have as well like I said before we're going to house that
next apparently the most Instagrammable place in the world that remains
to be seen we'll find out next time if you want to
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