The drive from Budapest to Salzburg was long but mostly uneventful. The girls did well, it was about 6 hours in the car and they handled it like professionals. Our hotel in Salzburg is the Star Inn, located about 5 minutes walk from the old town. It is getting late in the day so after a quick rest we head into town to find something for dinner. When we get back I duck out to the supermarket and Ella jumps in the shower. She soon realises that the water in the shower is not heating up and by the time I return Amy has also tried the shower and there is no hot water at all! I complain to reception and they grab a key to another room and we try the water there and it is also cold. The whole hotel has run out of hot water, so back to our room I go. A little while later a man turns up and checks all the taps and tests the water for himself, but cannot find the problem. So we leave it until the next day and thankfully the hot water returns, they were blaming the water supplier but I reckon they didn’t have it turned up, as the hotel was quite empty.

Salzburg has a very compact old town, however it still big enough to contain some fantastic sights. It is the birthplace for Mozart, has many beautiful churches including the Salzburg Cathedral and St Peters Church, and also Fortress Hohensalzburg with an amazing tale of how Salzburg survived when confronted by an invading army.

We only stayed in Salzburg for 2 nights as a quick stopover before heading to the Austrian Alps for some skiing. By this stage we were all getting a little tired of churches, castles and old town’s and we were ready to go and spend some time in the snow and just have some fun. We hadn’t seen any snow since leaving Norway and the girls had missed it, so it was time to head to Ellmau, Austria.