Salzburg City with it’s Cathedral and the Salzach river, my photo taken from the Castle.
Salzburg City with it's Cathedral and the Salzach river, my photo taken from the Castle.

 My 1991 Contiki bus tour took us to a few different places in Austria. I struggled to remember lots of it until I tried getting the photos into some sort of order, I had to google a few photos to find a names of places and match to my photos. It was fun putting it all together. Austria has a lot more history than I knew about. I should have taken more notice of what the tour manager was telling us. It was not until we watched a show on Netflix's late last year called "The Empress" that a lot of the history started to fall into place for me. I had no idea that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was so big at one time. It makes me wonder that might happen to the likes of Russia, China and American in the future, even out here in Australia, which often gets confused with Austria by the means of spelling only, we get talk of Western Australia and far north Queensland wanted to break away and become their own sovereign State. I suppose just like the rest of history it is all about the control of recourses. 

The Hohensalzburg Castle or Fortress.
The Hohensalzburg Castle or Fortress.
Neptune Fountain Below Fortress Hohensalzburg.
Neptune Fountain Below Fortress Hohensalzburg.
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna.
Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna. 
The Votive Church in Vienna would have been visited by Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth whom I learned a bit about in the Netflix’s show.
The Votive Church in Vienna would have been visited by Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth whom I learned a bit about in the Netflix's show.

 

Other than a hand full of old photos i still have a postage stamp from a post card I would have sent home, I like that you can just make out the old post mark of Salzburg on the Salzburg stamp my very own little bit of history.
Other than a hand full of old photos i still have a postage stamp from a post card I would have sent home, I like that you can just make out the old post mark of Salzburg on the Salzburg stamp my very own little bit of history.