Getting to Salzburg, Austria - Via the OBB Train

Riding the OBB Train to Salzburg, Austria

It was hard to leave Venice and moved on to our next destination, Salzburg, Austria. We just loved Venice and vowed to come back for a longer visit in the near future.

The biggest regret I had was not able to buy and bring back the beautiful Murano handmade chandelier back to Canada with us.

We had a lot of luggage and I was afraid that the chandelier might be broken on our way back and that we would get upset at each other.

We have had such a fantastic holiday in Europe, I wanted a beautiful ending coming home and would not want a lost or broken expensive chandelier to ruin our trip at the end.

Bike Rack on the OBB Train

We left the Venice hotel and boarded the bus to take us across to the Austrian border and from there we transferred to the OBB train.  We had a couple of hours to kill before boarding the cross border bus, and with luggage in tow, we went and sat by the harbour and had a drink

As we sipped our drinks and had our last pizza in Italy, a large group of passengers, just got off from their cruise ship, were waiting around for what to do next.

 That was exactly what we did not want to happen on our trip. What could you do and see in a few hours off the cruise ship in a new city? I kinda felt bad for the tourists from the cruise ship because they would not be able to experience many of Venice's beautiful scenery and unique atmosphere in just a a few hours.

View of the Alps from our OBB Train

The train fare from Venice to Salzburg was around 70 Euro each, the most expensive fare of our numerous land transportation in Europe so far, but  this leg of our land travel in Europe was also the longest in distance.

Passing by the Alps

It was about a 6 hour journey from Venice to Salzburg.

The Alps were majestic and the houses were neat and just like the scenery we saw in the story books.














Capturing the views on our cameras was not easy as the train was going too fast for us to take any decent pictures.

View from Our OBB Train

It was a real challenge for us during the entire train ride.

We were glad that we had a few hours to catch up on our blogs. We were a little behind on our writing and glad to have this opporunity to do them.

When we were busy writing, time went by very quickly. Before we realized it our train pulled into the Salzburg train station around 9pm. The train station was wide open and space age looking. We knew we had arrived in Austria.

Since it was a little too late to go out for dinner, we visited the supermarket at the train station and bought our dinner there.

The Jufa hotel, a decent hotel with modern design and furnishing, was where we stayed for the night.  The two single beds in our room could be put together easily in a flash. There was a third bed hanging flat against the wall above the two twin beds that looked like a headboard but could easily be pulled out to sleep a third person. The bedroom was small in North American standard but comfortable and sufficient.

We looked forward to a night of good rest in Austria.

R. & S. T.
August 24, 2012