New year at Salzburg

All I can say is, its a damn beautiful place. Great scenery, not touristy and not very heavily populated. If you wanna spend your honeymoon here, its highly recommended by me. =P. Then again, the hotels are rather expensive. 100+ euros for 1 nite for 2 person during new year season though. Oh yea for pics please refer to my facebook, I cant be bothered to upload pics for 2 sites, its rather troublesome, lol.

Oh anyway me and zic tried to be adventurous and booked accomodations for the first night. Then we found this rather cheap and cool hostel to stay at; and decided to stay here for the 2nd night and hotel for the 3rd night. Hence after getting a place for the 2nd nite we went back to the tourist info center and asked them to book a hotel for us only for the 3rd nite; oh yea.. never ever book hotels for 1 night only, most would be rather expensive or will require a minimum of 2 nights. Yea, we only ended up with an option which was 500 euros for the last nite, LOL. Then we went back to the hostel, luckily we managed to get ourselves the same place for the last night.


Concerts in salzburg were pretty good, considering that they are the city of music you know. Had a damn high class dinner at the castle on top of the hill - Hohensalzburg. The ticket consists of the cog ride up, dinner + concert for 33 euros(students only), rather affordable. Night scenery was gorgeous, a pity that it was ZIC who was with me, damn anti climax - 2 guys... zzz, lol.

New year's eve night they had this concert and zic finally had balls to drink alcohol(gluehwein) that nite coz he was freezing lol. It was a rather normal celebrations by europeans I guess, concerts + tents selling food and drinks, fireworks at night with the chime of the bells of the Dom.
It was this night that was particularly amusing. At 330 am while me and zic were fast asleep, some germans came in and woke both of us up, lol. They keep saying 'aegnom' ( I cant find the exact spelling of it but it sounds like this, its supposed to be a bayerish dialect, not sure). This means sleeping/asleep. Abit high on alcohol but well.. no threat, just some frenly disturbance, haha. Zic didn't take it too well... he could not get back to sleep but woke up at 4 am took out his laptop and worked in the lounge. lol, HE woke me up at 730 am; I was DAMN SURPRISED. OMG ZIC WOKE ME up, yea... he couldn't get to sleep thats why, lol. He was a little pissed with the germans though but I found them to be a fun bunch of people, haha.

Anyway half the time in salzburg was spent chilling around especially in the lounge of the youth hostel, pretty nice - www.jfgh.at
Its very near the city center also, around 10 mins walk.

Conclusion - You guys should visit there if there's chance.