Salzburg; Wednesday, 16 April, 2014

Just two weeks out from the trip, and by pure chance, I discovered that rather than departing Gatwick at 15:10 my flight had been retimed to 13:00. After some frantic re-arranging of annual leave arrangements I managed to get away from work just before 11 and headed down to the airport.

An exceptionally full, but comfortable and uneventful flight later we arrived into Salzburg where the plane was met by buses and a rather too efficient baggage team who were already driving across the airport apron fully loaded before the buses had pulled off from the plane.

With a very quick journey through immigration, baggage and customs I found myself less than 15 minutes after touching down boarding the bus into town.

After checking-in at the hotel and dropping my stuff off I went for a wander round town, taking in the main sights in the city centre, before taking the funicular railway up to the fortress to take in the views from there.

Descending back down into the old town I continued my wandering before ending up outside a very nice looking Bierkeller.

Quite a bit later, and fit to bursting from excellent bratwurst and even better beer I staggered out of the Bierkeller, had a very brief stop to take a few evening photos before heading back to the hotel and my bed.