Melvan lookout over Salzburg

Melvan lookout over Salzburg
Originally uploaded by melvan2006.

Click this photo to view more photos from Salburg. Great time, great place - hope you enjoy.

Cheers
Melvan XOXOXO

Merry Christmas To All

G´day all - sorry for the slackness with the christmas wishes but as they say, better late than never. We hope everyone has had a great christmas full of family, fun, presents, food and drinking (in no particular order). This is not the most personal way to contact all of our family and friends however it seems to be the most convenient. Thank you to all of you who have sent cards, etc. They were greatly appreciated and currently on proud display in London.

It has definitely been a different christmas this year!!! We certainly missed being around our families and friends in the lead up and on the day, however have had some great experiences that almost make up for it.

We have been in Salzburg, Austria for the past week (since Dec 21) in anticipation of a white christmas. Who would ever have expected Europe to have their warmest winter in almost 200 years and as a result no snow!!! Well non in the city which last year had 1 meter at this time. Despite the lack of snow Salzburg is an amazingly beautiful city. It is only quite small in population but the scenery and architecture are like nothing we have seen before (in person anyway).

We have spent the week here with Ben and Meagan and experienced traditional Austrian food, beer halls, christmas markets and various other cultural events. Melvan even tried their hand (or feet) at ice skating in a rink inside the old town. Great fun and laughs (particularly for those watching) and pain to follow. Yesterday we ventured to a near by mountain (where there was snow). This was the first time that Ben had ever seen snow. The views again were fantastic and we attempted a couple of track treks to vaious viewing points and managed to escape injury. No doubt Mel will claim her highlight to be the Sound of Music tour which led us to a number of spots shown in the movie.

All in all Salzburg has been brilliant. We highly recommend it to anybody - although we think someone else has already been doing that as there is a ridiculous number of Australians here.

Must run now. Wishing you all a very happy new year and we will be in touch (and add some pics) soon.

Cheers
Melvan