Salt Mine Tour in Austria

Salt Mine Tour in Austria

Salzburg = Salz + burg. Quite literally, salt castle. Salzburg may be famous for it's starring role in the Sound of Music, but it has a long, long, long history with salt, salt mining, and it was the profits from the salt mining that financed the building of the city. Now, you may know that Aaron and I are never ones to pass up a mine tour, and we knew that this was one thing we had to do on our weekend getaway to Austria. 

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Mine Tours and Snow

Mine Tours and Snow

We found snow!  This weekend, we headed north, instead of south, to the town of Goslar.  We left after work on Friday and headed out.  On our way, we stopped and stayed in a small hotel in a small outdoor recreation area next to a river.  Conveniently, this was their first snowfall of the year, meaning the snow was still clean, and it coated everything.  It was absolutely beautiful! Inconveniently, the Germans apparently didn't know how to drive in the snow.  About 30 km away from our final destination, traffic

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