20/03/06 Salzburg

Managing to return our skis and make checkout after stroh the previous night, we headed back to Salzburg for 2 nights. After greasy food and a good sleep we went for a massive sightseeing treck around town and up the hills. Everything in the centre of town was so old and beautiful. It was a maze of intricate alleyways. Luckily we were on the map this time. (When we were here a few days ago Gem lead us the wrong way, when we realised we were lost, we were well off the map and ended up trying to understand directions in German off a man with a really big dog).

Salzburg is the town they filmed "Sound of Music" in. You can do day tour to all the places. We found the park they sang "Do Re Mi" in. Mozart was born here too, so there's Mozart souvineers everywhere as well. We went up the hills and saw some beautiful old castles, took in views of the city with the backdrop of the Alps, and threw some more snowballs at each other. It's amazing... spring seemed to hit while we were skiing. When we were here 6 days ago, the snow was about 1 metre thick, and now it was all melting and was the consistency of slush puppies.

We caught the plane back to Stanstead on 21/3, in time for Sara to start work at medical records at a dental hospital on Wednesday. She loves it!

Gem is still waiting for the paperwork to come through (namely the Australian Police check - they lost her file), but hopefully it should all be storted this weekend and she can start AIN work on Monday (for a whopping 6 pounds 70 pence / hr.) The nursing registration shoud be processed within a fortnight, and then she can finally work as a nurse!