If you're looking for things to do while in Salzburg: 🎶 Sounds of Music Tour: https: //gyg.me/OCCKAeYA ⛰ Hallstatt tour: gyg.me/uX5VsQc9 🎻 Mozart Concert: gyg.me/uX5VsQc9 🏰 Hohensalzburg Entrance ticket: gyg.me/NmPeYZDH ⛏ Sounds of Music and Salt Mines Tour: gyg.me/tsRwbhGR
Salzburg has been on my list of places to visit for a while but I think I'll have to move it closer to the top of the list after seeing this video. Stunning city.
I see a video of my hometown, I click on it. I often go for a walk with my dog at the Kapuzinerberg, and people being so in awe of the views there makes me appreciate that privilege even more.
Another great video, Ben. You looked like you enjoyed this trip. Great to see the elation on your face when you reached the top of that peak. Was stunning for sure. I've been looking at visiting Salzburg and Hallstatt myself. It's good to see it through your eyes and hear your thoughts. Definitely now on my must do list this year along with Krakow if I can. My mum always wanted to visit salzburg because she was a huge fan of the sound of music. Sadly she never got there before she passed away, so it's something I really want to do to honor her memory. Looking forward to next week's video.
Thank you! I am getting slightly better at balancing filming / enjoying the trip. I hope you get to visit in memory of your Mum, I often get emotional when I visit amazing places and think of those who have passed. I think I need to watch the Sound of music for the first time too!
Salzburg is great. Have been there 5 times, I think. Most recently in December. My "cool" moment in Mozarts Geburtshaus was standing in the room where he was born and thinking, "I'm standing in the room where Mozart was born!" Great video, as always. Looking forward to Hallstatt and Vienna!
Wonderful to see you walking in the beautiful springtime sunshine. You are clearly a traveller/ explorers/ adventurer. No agenda, no plan, no checklist itinerary. My most recent visit to Salzburg was in a winters, icy December 2022. Whereas it is concerning to note that even the upper reaches of the Alps are without snow, good on you for seeking the best views. Austria is a wonderful country. Thank you for your upload. Cheers from Zoltan (in Dubrovnik)
Thank you Zoltan. The comment is much appreciated, again. It is nice just being able to explore without a plan sometimes, though I could have done with more time in Salzburg and Vienna really!
My wife and I spent three unforgettable weeks in Austria in July, '03. Our daughter lives in Salzburg, so we got an inside look at this beautiful city. Thanks for putting this wonderful video together. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
Thank you! I'm quite a fussy eater actually, and also after long tiring hours filming, I'm guilty of just wanting something quick and easy so I can rest after filming!
Just stumbled upon your channel as we are thinly of doing a road trip to Salzburg in Sept. We thought you were fabulous! Really informative and interesting. Your use of classic music was so refreshing. Keep it up.
Nice Video of my Hometown! The Peak you where on, is actually in Germany. You walked over a Country boarder without even noticing. Anyway its a fantastic place to be with good weather. A Magical Place
Bluetooth mic that clips to your shirt would be helpful. Other than that, GORGEOUS!! A dream place of mine to visit since I was a yound girl in the 60s and Sound of Music.
just discovered your channel! wonderful, made my first visits last year to newcastle and salzburg, and your accent is a huge bonus! I went there for 2 reasons: The SoM tour and obersaltzburg/the eagles nest. Surprised you don't mention this.
That's amazing, welcome! How did you find Newcastle? Yeah I really wanted to visit the Eagle's nest but unfortunately it's closed most of the year (opens in April I believe). I'd love to visit one day, but quite weary about all the people which puts me off a fair bit
Hi Ben, awesome video of the highlights of your time in Salzburg Austria. The music you had playing during the video was so fitting for all of the structural and scenic beauty. I never visited the country of Austria so glad to see it through your video. Thanks for the tip of the $28.00 pass. Looks like it was a money saver as it included entrance for the $13.00 Mozart Museum and also the the $28.00 Cable Car ride. Looking forward to your other videos of the different places you are visiting in Austria. Thanks for all of your efforts to film, narrate and edit the footage and adding the background music.
Glad you enjoyed music, I think it makes the videos personally 😊 Certainly takes an insane amount of effort to film, narrate and edit. Thanks for watching Ben!
Hi, I'm from Salzburg, so I thought I may add a few things: 1. All statues in Salzburg are covered during winter, because snow and cold winds easily damage the old stone 2. The "catacombs" are believed to be early christian "meeting places" and later on the hermitage of the St. Peter monastery. The name "catacombs" probably developed much later in the nineteenth century, hence you didn't find bones 😅 3. The "long forgotten fortress walls" are actually remans of the former city wall. We call this specific wall on the Kapuzinerberg "Bürgerwehr" (vigilante) 4. Actually no, sundays here are far from slow😂 In summer the whole Universitätsplatz (university square; 9:07) would actually be flooded by a queue of people by 10 AM, waiting to get frozen yoghurt at Fabi's (the icecream shop on the right) 5. Getreidegasse ( 10:01 ) does actually mean sth like "grain alley", because it would be the main street for transporting were (as eg grain), it wasnt really the main road however Yeah thats enough being a know-it-all for now. Sry if I'm too tiring already😬 Thx for the video. Living here, you sometimes dont realise the beauty of this city (for example casually walking past the cathedral and looking up to the fortress on the way to buy bread for breakfeast 😂) and videos like these really remind of this. Thanks. Hope to see ya soon back here in Salzburg :) (Also I apologise for any spelling mistakes or so, I try not to use Google for comments like these😬)
Nice vid. I want to go! One thing I saw that I’ve seen in another video, is if you panned down a bit at 11:40 where there’s that green open space, there’s a house in the middle on its own - that’s where the executioner used to live, and nobody wanted to live beside him so they built their houses away from his for good luck 😂 Edit: I googled it and it’s apparently true!
Oh cool, I never knew that haha! perhaps that's the sort of thing you'd hear about if doing a guided tour. Though I was a bit rushed in Salzburg unfortunately. Thanks for watching Rob, as always! Take care
Ohhhhh nooo, sadly, do NOT believe what you read on Google! (GOOGLE?!!? LOL You know better than that!) Nope, that popular FICTIONAL tale about the house on the meadow below the Hohensalzburg Fortress being the "executioner's house" is humbug, apparently still bandied about so often by some of the Fortress guides, it made it into search engines. The tale was being heatedly True-False'd even back in the 1980s when I moved to Salzburg. But it was a story that caught on, simply because that house used to look so isolated (now there's far more greenery & trees around it.) But PLEASE forget "Google"! The fact is, some tour guide's imagination got away from them after thousands of tourists asked day after day: "What's that lone house way down there in that open meadow?" And as any tour guide can attest, tourists want AN answer to their question -- it doesn't have to be a TRUE answer! And the more imaginative the "answer" the better. 😀 Real historians will tell you that house is just an ordinary building that is only a couple hundred years old (while the Fortress's gradual construction dates back to around 1077.) I learned on a few historian-led walking tours over the years that the person who held the official post of executioner was a VIP and not shunned & isolated in a mere cottage. The ACTUAL historic and relatively palatial home of generations of Salzburg's official executioners stands in the SCHANZLGASSE. Its elegant front door can be seen from the corner of Schanzlgasse/Kaigasse as you enter the Old Town from the Kajetanerplatz. As you can imagine, the job of executioner tended to be hard to fill -- it was fairly well paid and gave you a lot of "time off" you might say. But due to your acquired "skills", you were not a popular person around town and so a nice place for you and your family to live was part of the package. I hope that makes more sense than some tour guide's bla-bla. 🙂
Thanks for VERY nice video, Ben! WELL DONE! I'll certanly pass it along to my friends and family who want to visit me here. Just FYI, the glass pyramid/green wooden covers built over the statuary around the Dom (Cathedral) you note at the outset are put in place every fall/winter to protect the statues from the elements. If you'd visited 3-4 weeks later, you would have seen those big, beautiful Baroque statues "in natura". Oh well! 🙂 The shop signs you see in the Getreidegasse ("Grain Lane") are historic guild signs - or wanna-be approximations for modern brands, like McDonalds, which had to break its domineering corporate signage precedents and bow low to Salzburg's laws or take its restaurant someplace other than historic Getreidegasse! LOL New subscriber, signing off with Many Thanks from Salzburg.
Excellent videos of Salzburg and hallstat. Helpful information too. Can you tell me where I I get the $28 card for the day visit in Salzburg? Thank you!
Thank you! You can buy one through this link:card-webshop.feratel.com/scc01/default/?language=en#category:card OR you'll be able to buy one no problem from your accommodation or ticket offices round the city . You might some of this information helpful from their website: www.salzburg.info/en/hotels-offers/salzburg-card
@@tally1604Really? They're not allowed to in the city... The worst thing I saw a Krampus do here was steeling the hat of a little girl, joking around a bit and returning it😂
Well if tourists enter the church to make fotos and nothing else, why shouldnt they pay? If youre from Salzburg or tell the cashier that youre here for "christian reasons" or visit during mass, you dont need to pay so its understandable.
@@BenRobson123 do you actually know how much money the Vatican has, they have absolutely trillions of dollars, they're one of the richest organisations in planet earth
If you're looking for things to do while in Salzburg:
🎶 Sounds of Music Tour: https: //gyg.me/OCCKAeYA
⛰ Hallstatt tour: gyg.me/uX5VsQc9
🎻 Mozart Concert: gyg.me/uX5VsQc9
🏰 Hohensalzburg Entrance ticket: gyg.me/NmPeYZDH
⛏ Sounds of Music and Salt Mines Tour: gyg.me/tsRwbhGR
Great video mate. Looks amazing I am in Austria next month. Did you visit the WW2 eagles nest
Salzburg has been on my list of places to visit for a while but I think I'll have to move it closer to the top of the list after seeing this video. Stunning city.
Great, glad you enjoyed it. And honestly I didn't really have enough time to slow down and properly appreciate the city!
I see a video of my hometown, I click on it.
I often go for a walk with my dog at the Kapuzinerberg, and people being so in awe of the views there makes me appreciate that privilege even more.
Amazing. It certainly is an incredible view, my jaw dropped when I found that surprise view by mistake
Another great video, Ben.
You looked like you enjoyed this trip. Great to see the elation on your face when you reached the top of that peak. Was stunning for sure.
I've been looking at visiting Salzburg and Hallstatt myself. It's good to see it through your eyes and hear your thoughts. Definitely now on my must do list this year along with Krakow if I can. My mum always wanted to visit salzburg because she was a huge fan of the sound of music. Sadly she never got there before she passed away, so it's something I really want to do to honor her memory.
Looking forward to next week's video.
Thank you! I am getting slightly better at balancing filming / enjoying the trip.
I hope you get to visit in memory of your Mum, I often get emotional when I visit amazing places and think of those who have passed.
I think I need to watch the Sound of music for the first time too!
You've shown possibly the most unique and best views I've ever seen of the city. Thanks.
@@yippie6862 that’s an amazing compliment, thank you 😊
Salzburg is great. Have been there 5 times, I think. Most recently in December. My "cool" moment in Mozarts Geburtshaus was standing in the room where he was born and thinking, "I'm standing in the room where Mozart was born!" Great video, as always. Looking forward to Hallstatt and Vienna!
Wow, you must like it! Thank you Stephen, hopefully out Sunday if I can get it all edited in time!
Wonderful to see you walking in the beautiful springtime sunshine. You are clearly a traveller/ explorers/ adventurer. No agenda, no plan, no checklist itinerary. My most recent visit to Salzburg was in a winters, icy December 2022. Whereas it is concerning to note that even the upper reaches of the Alps are without snow, good on you for seeking the best views. Austria is a wonderful country. Thank you for your upload. Cheers from Zoltan (in Dubrovnik)
Thank you Zoltan. The comment is much appreciated, again. It is nice just being able to explore without a plan sometimes, though I could have done with more time in Salzburg and Vienna really!
Absolutely stunning video.
Glad you enjoyed it Scott!
Love the cross on the mountain. All of it is absolutely stunning!
Incredible isn't it! Wish I had more time up there on my own. It's the little surprises which make a trip special!
Love the music ❤
Me too!😁
My wife and I spent three unforgettable weeks in Austria in July, '03. Our daughter lives in Salzburg, so we got an inside look at this beautiful city. Thanks for putting this wonderful video together. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
That’s fantastic. I’m sure it’s a lovely place to live!
As always, another great video! Why is it that you do not feature any places to eat that the cuisine of where you are visiting? Just curious!
Thank you! I'm quite a fussy eater actually, and also after long tiring hours filming, I'm guilty of just wanting something quick and easy so I can rest after filming!
@@BenRobson123Obviously you are a healthy eater so it can't be that bad!!
Love Salzberg. I would also recommend Slovenia for amazing mountain views
Thanks Paul, anywhere in particular you'd recommend? Ljubljana is on my list
Just stumbled upon your channel as we are thinly of doing a road trip to Salzburg in Sept.
We thought you were fabulous! Really informative and interesting. Your use of classic music was so refreshing. Keep it up.
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed the video. Have a fantastic time if you end up travelling to Salzburg!
i had a great time there i went for the christmas markets , such a beautiful place
Nice Video of my Hometown! The Peak you where on, is actually in Germany. You walked over a Country boarder without even noticing. Anyway its a fantastic place to be with good weather. A Magical Place
Bluetooth mic that clips to your shirt would be helpful. Other than that, GORGEOUS!! A dream place of mine to visit since I was a yound girl in the 60s and Sound of Music.
Thanks for the feedback :) Glad you enjoyed it and hope you get to visit one day!
Wow..fantastic as always 😊
Thanks Terri!😁
Cracking video Ben really enjoyed it. Am looking to do a day trip to Salzburg while visiting Vienna next month. 🙂
Thanks David. Sounds great, may also be worth considering a visit to Hallstatt too if you have enough time! Have a great trip
Enjoyed, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for doing the hard work to get those beautiful panoramic views of the castle and the city
You're very welcome. Thanks again Carolina!
Some amazing views across the city to the mountains. Beautiful city too.
Certainly Ron, a lovely city which I'd love to visit again in Summer time!
@BenRobson123 I really ought to make plans to visit, I've been a fan of mozart since I was in my teens, so really should look into this for summer. 👍
just discovered your channel! wonderful, made my first visits last year to newcastle and salzburg, and your accent is a huge bonus! I went there for 2 reasons: The SoM tour and obersaltzburg/the eagles nest. Surprised you don't mention this.
That's amazing, welcome! How did you find Newcastle? Yeah I really wanted to visit the Eagle's nest but unfortunately it's closed most of the year (opens in April I believe). I'd love to visit one day, but quite weary about all the people which puts me off a fair bit
Fantastic video Ben I love ❤Salzburg was there last year and eleven years ago and going back in September thanks for memories Ben
Thank you Grant. And that's fantastic, enjoy!
@@BenRobson123 you most welcome Ben looking forward to Salzburg again happy travels
Jaw-dropping view. wonderful video.. thank you for sharing with us..
Glad you enjoyed it!😇
Oh!! Every bit of it.. Absolutely fantastic... ❤️
I'm going to Salzberg in September i can't wait. This video has got me so excited thanks for sharing.
You’re very welcome. Have an amazing trip!
Hi Ben, awesome video of the highlights of your time in Salzburg Austria. The music you had playing during the video was so fitting for all of the structural and scenic beauty. I never visited the country of Austria so glad to see it through your video.
Thanks for the tip of the $28.00 pass. Looks like it was a money saver as it included entrance for the $13.00 Mozart Museum and also the the $28.00 Cable Car ride.
Looking forward to your other videos of the different places you are visiting in Austria.
Thanks for all of your efforts to film, narrate and edit the footage and adding the background music.
Glad you enjoyed music, I think it makes the videos personally 😊
Certainly takes an insane amount of effort to film, narrate and edit. Thanks for watching Ben!
Hi, I'm from Salzburg, so I thought I may add a few things:
1. All statues in Salzburg are covered during winter, because snow and cold winds easily damage the old stone
2. The "catacombs" are believed to be early christian "meeting places" and later on the hermitage of the St. Peter monastery. The name "catacombs" probably developed much later in the nineteenth century, hence you didn't find bones 😅
3. The "long forgotten fortress walls" are actually remans of the former city wall. We call this specific wall on the Kapuzinerberg "Bürgerwehr" (vigilante)
4. Actually no, sundays here are far from slow😂 In summer the whole Universitätsplatz (university square; 9:07) would actually be flooded by a queue of people by 10 AM, waiting to get frozen yoghurt at Fabi's (the icecream shop on the right)
5. Getreidegasse ( 10:01 ) does actually mean sth like "grain alley", because it would be the main street for transporting were (as eg grain), it wasnt really the main road however
Yeah thats enough being a know-it-all for now. Sry if I'm too tiring already😬
Thx for the video. Living here, you sometimes dont realise the beauty of this city (for example casually walking past the cathedral and looking up to the fortress on the way to buy bread for breakfeast 😂) and videos like these really remind of this. Thanks. Hope to see ya soon back here in Salzburg :)
(Also I apologise for any spelling mistakes or so, I try not to use Google for comments like these😬)
Thank you very much for the information. That's very interesting about the statues! Not a problem at all, your English is fantastic 😄
If water seeps into cracks of the statues and freezes there, this can do significant damage.
Simply breathtaking
It really is! Thanks for watching as always 😁
Nice vid. I want to go!
One thing I saw that I’ve seen in another video, is if you panned down a bit at 11:40 where there’s that green open space, there’s a house in the middle on its own - that’s where the executioner used to live, and nobody wanted to live beside him so they built their houses away from his for good luck 😂
Edit: I googled it and it’s apparently true!
Oh cool, I never knew that haha! perhaps that's the sort of thing you'd hear about if doing a guided tour. Though I was a bit rushed in Salzburg unfortunately. Thanks for watching Rob, as always! Take care
Ohhhhh nooo, sadly, do NOT believe what you read on Google! (GOOGLE?!!? LOL You know better than that!) Nope, that popular FICTIONAL tale about the house on the meadow below the Hohensalzburg Fortress being the "executioner's house" is humbug, apparently still bandied about so often by some of the Fortress guides, it made it into search engines.
The tale was being heatedly True-False'd even back in the 1980s when I moved to Salzburg. But it was a story that caught on, simply because that house used to look so isolated (now there's far more greenery & trees around it.) But PLEASE forget "Google"! The fact is, some tour guide's imagination got away from them after thousands of tourists asked day after day: "What's that lone house way down there in that open meadow?" And as any tour guide can attest, tourists want AN answer to their question -- it doesn't have to be a TRUE answer! And the more imaginative the "answer" the better. 😀
Real historians will tell you that house is just an ordinary building that is only a couple hundred years old (while the Fortress's gradual construction dates back to around 1077.)
I learned on a few historian-led walking tours over the years that the person who held the official post of executioner was a VIP and not shunned & isolated in a mere cottage.
The ACTUAL historic and relatively palatial home of generations of Salzburg's official executioners stands in the SCHANZLGASSE. Its elegant front door can be seen from the corner of Schanzlgasse/Kaigasse as you enter the Old Town from the Kajetanerplatz.
As you can imagine, the job of executioner tended to be hard to fill -- it was fairly well paid and gave you a lot of "time off" you might say. But due to your acquired "skills", you were not a popular person around town and so a nice place for you and your family to live was part of the package.
I hope that makes more sense than some tour guide's bla-bla. 🙂
Stunning my friend!! You took the ttain from Salzburg to Haalstad?
Thank you! And yes I did, I have a video for Hallstatt too if that helps :)
my guy!
Appreciate the support as always mate ❤️
Thanks for VERY nice video, Ben! WELL DONE! I'll certanly pass it along to my friends and family who want to visit me here. Just FYI, the glass pyramid/green wooden covers built over the statuary around the Dom (Cathedral) you note at the outset are put in place every fall/winter to protect the statues from the elements. If you'd visited 3-4 weeks later, you would have seen those big, beautiful Baroque statues "in natura". Oh well! 🙂
The shop signs you see in the Getreidegasse ("Grain Lane") are historic guild signs - or wanna-be approximations for modern brands, like McDonalds, which had to break its domineering corporate signage precedents and bow low to Salzburg's laws or take its restaurant someplace other than historic Getreidegasse! LOL
New subscriber, signing off with Many Thanks from Salzburg.
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Excellent videos of Salzburg and hallstat. Helpful information too. Can you tell me where I I get the $28 card for the day visit in Salzburg? Thank you!
Thank you! You can buy one through this link:card-webshop.feratel.com/scc01/default/?language=en#category:card
OR you'll be able to buy one no problem from your accommodation or ticket offices round the city .
You might some of this information helpful from their website:
www.salzburg.info/en/hotels-offers/salzburg-card
Was there in Salzburg in December for the Christmas market and the Krampus run. Now, that was a trip and a half.
Bet it was beautiful, and that sounds interesting!
@BenRobson123 you should try it. But wear a good thick track suit because the Krampuses use their whips for real.
@@tally1604Really? They're not allowed to in the city... The worst thing I saw a Krampus do here was steeling the hat of a little girl, joking around a bit and returning it😂
Did you fly with Jet2? I wanted to do this with Munich as apparently it's 1 hour 30 minutes away by train!
Yep. Munich is very close by! Last flights from Newcastle are in April though, should be some cheap ones going out, not sure about coming back!
i had a wonderful time in salzburg i went at christmas for the markets i also visited Innsbruck its a beautiful country
oh I bet it must've been beautiful at Christmas! How was Innsbruck?
So you don t have free transport and museums becayse you stayed in a hotel in Salzburg? You have to buy that card?
your vids are getting sicker, can just see you progressing in the editing game and layout class
Thank you so much!!
Trust me, you just don't want to live there!
You should never have to pay to enter any places of worship, that's just a racket
Perhaps in an ideal world, but Catholicism is dying. If they didn't charge for entry, no doubt the Churches would soon decline too
Religion is a racquet regardless.
It's 5 Euro's it's not exactly extortionate🙄
Well if tourists enter the church to make fotos and nothing else, why shouldnt they pay? If youre from Salzburg or tell the cashier that youre here for "christian reasons" or visit during mass, you dont need to pay so its understandable.
@@BenRobson123 do you actually know how much money the Vatican has, they have absolutely trillions of dollars, they're one of the richest organisations in planet earth