The Scroop's European Holiday: Wurzburg-Salzburg

It's a stunning morning in Wurzburg, not a cloud in the sky as we head downstairs to have breakfast in the hotel restaurant. The available food looks more like lunch than breakfast with an assortment of meats, cheeses, pickles etc. We opt for the crunchy chocolate cereal and the fruit and yogurt. The restaurant is very upper class with nice classy coffee cups, fancy table cloths and some soft Mozartsy type music in the background. That is until Tyler breaks the soft tunes by letting one rip! I look at Tyler trying to be all serious and say "TYLER, WHAT'S THAT YOU???" But I couldn't hold it in after looking at Kris who was already in stitches and we spent the next five minutes rolling around in laughter like school kids. It’s now 9am and we don’t have to catch our train until 11am so we leave breakfast and decide to wander around Wurzburg a bit before we check out. Wurzburg is an awesome place and we wish we had another day here to look around a bit more. We grab some fruit for the train ride, head back to the hotel to grab our bags and walk to the train station. We get to the platform and the board says in German something with the number 15 after it. We assume this to be the train is running 15 minutes late. This is not good because we only have 14 minutes between connecting trains in Munich. As it turns out the train ended up being 20 minutes late so we figure we're in strife. We get on board and sign up for the Wi-Fi so we can check the train times and email the bloke at our accommodation in Salzburg. The information on the net confirms we will arrive 20 minutes late so we find a ticket conductor and let her know our situation. She gets on her hand held device and start writing stuff on the back of our ticket. She tells us to board the next train which is only 15 minutes after our original train but we don't have reservations. This means we will have to try and find non reserved seats or we stand. At this point there is not much we can do except hope the train makes up some time. We start pulling in to Munich so we grab our bags (and when we grab our bags we take up some room, 3 suitcases, 2 backpacks and a fully loaded computer case) and head for the door so we can be first out. When the train arrives its 13:25 and our connecting train departs at 13:27. Problem is, we are on platform 23 which is about 200m long, so once we have run that we have to then get to platform 12. We burst out of the gates like Black Caviar and just start running towards the end of the platform. There is no way we are going to make this train. This kids are up front, Mia's only got a plastic bag with grapes in it so she's gone. Tyler's only got the small suitcase so he's not far behind Mia. I've got 1 of the big suitcases; a backpack and the computer bag while Kris is bring up the rear with the other suitcase and a backpack. I feel like I'm about to have a heart attack as we get to the end of the platform and turn in the direction of platform 12. When we get there the train is still there. We jump through the first door which at one point I thought may have been the door to the locomotive, and we make it. We do the mad look around to make sure all the info tells us the train is going to Salzburg. We are all puffing like crazy when we get to our seats. Lucky for us they were only in the next carriage. When we get there, a couple is in our seats but as seasoned travellers we are wise to the "get out of our seats" mode you need to be in. The train ride from Munich to Salzburg is a cracker with views of the mountains. We arrive in Salzburg and jump in a cab to our apartment. When we get there the owner and his wife are there to meet us (normally its someone else that does this but she is unwell). They are both really nice people and they make us feel at home straight away. The apartment is stunning and it is huge. Again there is two bedrooms, one with a king bed and one with a queen bed. The queen bed has the views over Salzburg so we go for that and the kids score the king bed again. We dump our stuff and head straight out to check out the Old Town of Salzburg. We are within walking distance and it is straight along the river. The Old Town of Salzburg is a bit strange, a bit like a rabbit warren. The is a festival on as well that reminds me a bit of the Oktoberfest with a huge beer tent, rides and food stalls and heaps of lederhosen. We want around for a while snacking at the festival before getting some groceries and heading back to the apartment. We decide not go out for dinner as the two days of train travel have worn us out. Salzburg officially welcomes us at around 7 o'clock as they start firing the cannons from the fortress high on the hill which we have an amazing view of from our windows. Then at 8 o'clock the Scroop welcome continues with fireworks just below the fortress.