Salzburg Archives - Richard M. Langworth http://localhost:8080/tag/salzburg Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:17:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/RML-favicon-150x150.png Salzburg Archives - Richard M. Langworth http://localhost:8080/tag/salzburg 32 32 Viking’s Danube Waltz (5): Salzburg and Linz http://localhost:8080/salzburg-linz Sun, 19 Jul 2015 12:49:37 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=3554 continued from part 4…  Visiting Linz and Salzburg….

The quality of Viking’s Danube Waltz cuisine is uniformly high. There is always a choice of three or four first and main courses, nicely balanced between meat, fish and vegetarian, with excellent soups (and again, there’s no reason why you can’t order both a starter and soup). At dinner, several staple items always accompany the choices: Caesar salad, sautéed salmon fillet and rib eye steak. Meats tend to be overcooked, so specify medium-rare if you mean medium—and some are tough, for which there are two solutions: send it back and ask for another (never a problem), or bring your own steak knives (unless they’ve accepted our suggestion that these be provided.)…

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Turismus Salzburg
Turismus Salzburg

continued from part 4…  Visiting Linz and Salzburg….

The quality of Viking’s Danube Waltz cuisine is uniformly high. There is always a choice of three or four first and main courses, nicely balanced between meat, fish and vegetarian, with excellent soups (and again, there’s no reason why you can’t order both a starter and soup). At dinner, several staple items always accompany the choices: Caesar salad, sautéed salmon fillet and rib eye steak. Meats tend to be overcooked, so specify medium-rare if you mean medium—and some are tough, for which there are two solutions: send it back and ask for another (never a problem), or bring your own steak knives (unless they’ve accepted our suggestion that these be provided.)

We woke in Linz and set off on a day’s excursion to Salzburg, 90 minutes away by motor coach. For passengers already familiar with Salzburg, Viking offers a morning tour of Linz. I leave it to your browser to tell you all about these fine cities and will simply state how Viking handles Salzburg.

Salzburg magnificence

Morning group walking tours take you to the Old Town, Mozart’s birthplace and Hohensalzburg Fortress above the city center. You’re then turned loose for 2 1/2 hours of free time including lunch on your own. Obviously this can be no more than an orientation visit; you need to come back.

In a few hours there’s enough time for a walking tour, shops and lunch. At mid-day many cafes seem to specialize in dessert dishes. We found one with a very good lunch (touristy prices) but it’s heavy fare. It was 90 in the shade so a cool church was a welcome respite afterward. The Old Town is mainly a shopping area for pricey luxury goods and tschotske. The funicular up to the Fortress is said to offer a great view and it was much cooler up there, but at this schedule there’d be little time for much else.

Modensee, between Linz and Salsburg.
Modensee, between Linz and Salzburg.

Again in June the crowds are enormous; early autumn might be a better time for this visit. I was not taking photos today but I did snap one of the Modensee, en route from Linz, overlooked by the southern alps, filled with sailboats, a spectacular panorama.

Next: Passau, Germany

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