Wednesday 15 June 2005
This morning it was an early rise to get over to the Spanish Riding school to watch "Morning Excercise". I was really hoping the excercise would be in the 'winter' ring inside as this is the one that is the one I recognise from all the TV programmes of the school. It was! (Yay!)
The programme consisted of the riders excercising the adolescent horses first - I could tell they were younger as they were grey, not white. The excercises were mainly walks, trots and canters, but after 30 mins the riders changed horses and then adult horses were bought out. The older horses practised some of the famous tricks. There was one adolescent horses who was more technically perfect than the adult horses - the über-horse, perhaps? After another 30 mins more adult horses were bought out for more excercises.#
After the riding school we grabbed a pastry from the train station, grabbed our bags and caught the train to Salzburg. The ride was a little over 3 hours and the carraige was much more comfortable than the trains in the Czech Republic and Poland. In our compartment we had a chinese girl who I helped with her bags. She didn't speak any english but her german was about the same level as mine - she kept saying "danke".
We arrived and caught a bendi-trolley bus into the city then walked to our hotel. Afterwards we went for a walk in the city and stopped for a beer in a cafe. I had a Birter Radler and it was the best beer I have ever had - it had a crisp lemon taste and wasn't bitter like the Monteiths Radler. Hmmmmm, very nice.
After dinner we walked around the city area looking for a internet cafe but couldn't find any. We did find a magnificent park with gardens laid out precisely and an interesting artwork of an Owl and a Pussycat. If you approached from the left it was an owl, if you approached from the right it was a pussycat.
Tomorrow we will visit the Mozart Musuem (at his birthplace) and the Hohensalzburg castle which overlooks Salzburg.
The programme consisted of the riders excercising the adolescent horses first - I could tell they were younger as they were grey, not white. The excercises were mainly walks, trots and canters, but after 30 mins the riders changed horses and then adult horses were bought out. The older horses practised some of the famous tricks. There was one adolescent horses who was more technically perfect than the adult horses - the über-horse, perhaps? After another 30 mins more adult horses were bought out for more excercises.#
After the riding school we grabbed a pastry from the train station, grabbed our bags and caught the train to Salzburg. The ride was a little over 3 hours and the carraige was much more comfortable than the trains in the Czech Republic and Poland. In our compartment we had a chinese girl who I helped with her bags. She didn't speak any english but her german was about the same level as mine - she kept saying "danke".
We arrived and caught a bendi-trolley bus into the city then walked to our hotel. Afterwards we went for a walk in the city and stopped for a beer in a cafe. I had a Birter Radler and it was the best beer I have ever had - it had a crisp lemon taste and wasn't bitter like the Monteiths Radler. Hmmmmm, very nice.
After dinner we walked around the city area looking for a internet cafe but couldn't find any. We did find a magnificent park with gardens laid out precisely and an interesting artwork of an Owl and a Pussycat. If you approached from the left it was an owl, if you approached from the right it was a pussycat.
Tomorrow we will visit the Mozart Musuem (at his birthplace) and the Hohensalzburg castle which overlooks Salzburg.
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