German Trip: June 11
Dinner at the Augustinerbraeu
- All dressed up for the salt mine
Uebercool miner
On the mine train and ready to roll
- Part of the slide between levels of the mine
- We spent the morning of June 10th shopping in Muenchen before our afternoon departure for Salzburg. Upon arriving in Salzburg we took a bus to our hotel and checked in to our rooms (3 guys in one room and the 8 women in the other). We then walked through the city and ate dinner in the garden of the Augustiner Braeu, a former monastery. This morning we awoke again to cloudy skies and cool temps. After breakfast on the terrace at the youth hostel we rode back to the train station and took a train and then a bus south into the mountains to the town of Hallein. The visit to the salt mine was awesome. Salt has been mined here since 500 B.C. beginning with the Celts. Salt is also what made Salzburg a rich city and gave it its name. We put on mining clothes and then rode a small train into the mountain. At two different times we had to slide down long wooden slides to get to the next level of the mine. We also rode a boat across a small salt lake deep in the mine. Upon our return to the city we had dinner on our own. The weather report says sun tomorrow. We’re holding our thumbs (German for crossing our fingers!).
