19 September - Salzburg

We first went to a salt mine.  Many of the places we went did not allow cameras inside.  We all had to wear coveralls in the mine.  We rode the miners' trolley in, then took the slide down a couple of levels (they took a picture of us which we will show you when we get home).  This is Walt in his mining coveralls.

Then we drove 1/2 hour to the Salzburg fortress in altstadt (old city).  We didn't go there because there was only so much time and Marie couldn't walk that far/

We first had lunch at this Moorish restaurant.  This narrow door leads to the restaurant in the cellar.  The owner had visited his brother in Denver and had quite a talk with us and treated us to schnapps (almond) at the end of the meal.

While the others climbed the mountain to the fortress, we visited the house where Mozart was born,

In the old town there were lots of expensive shops on narrow streets.  Most shops hung signs illustrating their wares just as in medeaval times . . .

. . . including this shop  which spent 1/2 million dollars on this sign: