April 25, 2025 • 8 mins
"Few cities in the world enjoy the stature of being a music mecca quite like Salzburg. It’s one of my favourite European destinations and I recently ventured back to this Austrian jewel with Trafalgar, as part of their magnificent 10-day Imperial Europe tour. It’s like a tasting plate of some of Central Europe’s most glittering destinations, steeped in history and spilling with scenic finery. And it’s all spectacularly brought to life with specialist local guides who live and breathe these destinations, with unbridled passion and pride."
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be make Yardley's our travel corresponding. He's here this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey Mike, good morning Jack. All lies on some Peter's
Square tonight. How do you think Rome's hotels are well?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Interesting? You asked that because as soon as you know,
the news came through, I was on I was on
breakfast this week, so I was getting up and doing
the early morning shifts, and the news came through what
like eight thirty or so on Monday night, and I thought, oh,
it'll be interesting to see if our correspondent can hot
tail it from London to Rome by the time we're
on ere tomorrow morning, and whether or not they'll be
(00:44):
able to get her a get her a hotel enemy
And she was there fine, made it with penny of
time and got a hotel. But yes, I suspect there
might have been a little bit of surge pricing, just
a just a hunt, just a little hunch. Yeah, and
my mind, me and that Christopher Luxen's and like a
you know, the standard the standards his hotel, he's probably
in like a three and a half star or something,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, I'd say he's down via the where all the
luxury hotels up. But interestingly, according to booking dot Com,
at the moment, Rome is ninety five percent full of
the amazing thing is And I've always found this incredible
about Rome. They have ninety eight thousand hotel rooms in
that city.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Ah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I think it isn't it. I don't think anything could
sell it out because yeah, the inventory is just so massive.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah wow, that's incredible. Okay, yeah, it'll be amazing to
watch that funeral tonight just after eight o'clock New Zealand,
of course, but we're turning our attention this morning to
a location just down the road relatively speaking, and Salzburg. So,
Salsburg sort of feels kind of like it was kind
of made for tourism.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Ah, totally. It's it's as if tourism's planets were just
perfectly aligned over Saltzburg, because you've got that perfectly preserved
old town, You've got amazing gardens, Baroque churches, one of
Europe's largest intact medieval fortresses, all cradled in Alpine grandeur,
(02:10):
and then overlay that jack with its music Meca status.
Wolfgang Amadas, Mozart and of course the Von Traps, so
it really has all the elements.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So where would you go to get a good sense
of Mozart's life.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, I think the main shopping street is we should
head first because that's where you will find Mozart's family home.
He's got this fabulous pestle painted townhouse and that's where
he lived for most of his life, twenty five of
his thirty five years. He died of kidney disease at yeah,
a ridiculously young age. But inside that townhouse there are
so many amazing artifacts, like you can see his childhood viola,
(02:48):
the square piano he played on the claver chord on
which he composed his final work, Requiem, which was played
for his own funeral. There is this stunning cafe about
three hundred and fifty years old, called Cafe Tomasselli. He
was a regular bier Jack and man, he was ahead
of the curve. It was very partial to Almond Milk.
(03:10):
Oh wow, so way ahead of the trend. Yes, And
of course in a city swollen with his music, there
are just so many concert halls every night that just
before Mozart's music. Best of all, though, Jack Mozart kogle.
These are well sort of Mozart immortalized in chocolate. They're
(03:31):
a mash up of chocolate, pistachio and Masipan Mozart balls.
Definitely get your fill of his balls.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Wow, yes, yes, so to speak. What about the sound
of music.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, this is the amazing thing about Saltzburg. Despite the
movie's oscars acclaim, it is still really unfamiliar to a
lot of Europeans. And the reason for that was when
it was released, much of Central and Eastern Europe didn't
screen it because its Nazi themes were deemed two raw
(04:07):
too soon for movie audiences. So a lot of locals
in Salzburg, yes, they will see the souvenirs, but they'll
have no affinity or knowledge of the of the movie itself.
So yeah, many Austrians never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's what like the sixtieth anniversary of that film, Mate.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It is incredible and it's estimated that even though the
locals aren't really up the play with the sound of music,
forty percent of visitors to Saltzburg are lured there by
the movie ringing in its ears. So it is very
much you know, the Lord of the Rings Austrian style,
And there are just so many incredible movie locations where
(04:47):
you feel like you've just walked into the movie, particularly
places like Mirabelle Gardens, you know where they did the
do rey Me piece in the movie. It is just
as it was back in nineteen sixty five. Non Burg Abbey.
There are still twenty seven Benedictine nuns in that abbey,
and even though you can't actually see much of the abbey,
(05:09):
you can go inside the church and if you go
there at six forty five in the morning, Jack, you
can actually hear the nuns perform near daily Gregorian chants
Maria not included.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I have to say, also countless time. So what about
dining destinations where as good for a taste of Saltzburg.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes, well, aside from binging on mosart balls, it's hard
to beat stiff to scaleless and pizza. Now, these are
the sellers of Saint Peter's Abbey and it may well
be the oldest operating restaurant in Europe. So you've got
this sort of like cave like cloister setting in this
restaurant and they have been serving diner's jack since eight
(05:52):
hundred and three AD. Isn't that craze. They do really
good schnitzel with parsley potatoes and cranberry confie. Really good
spinish dumplings, by the way, But we're whever you dine
in the city. Salzburger knock on is a staple dessert
that you've got to absolutely stuff yourself with. So this
(06:16):
is this gigantic sweet soup fle It salutes the three
peaks that backdrop the city and it's got cranberry confee
icing sugar topped. It's so big, the soufla I reckon
you could virtually ski jump off it. It is just amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, oh so good. So beyond town, do you have
any recommended excursions?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, Well, when I was there a couple of weeks
ago with Trafalgar, we jaunted to the Bejeweled Lakes district
of Austria. Absolutely stunning, very much like the Southern Lakes
of New Zealand's because the glacially fed, so you get
those very vivid turquoise and milky blue colors. One of
the best spots is Munsie. It's a church there, gorgeous
(07:00):
Benedicting church was where the marriage of Maria and the
Baron was filmed in the sound of music. But every
I laughed about this. There's a Saudi shake. He jets
into Monzi every summer to his lake house and he
brings with him twenty three wives. That would take some wrangling. Jack.
(07:20):
Just across the border from Salzburg into Germany and the
Bavarian Alps, we took a ride up Germany's highest mountain road.
It takes you up two thousand meters from Auba Salzburg.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh Man, two thousand Okay, it is pretty high, like
Mount Hutt.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Really are Yeah, yes, that like that's.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Kind of where Hitler's Eagle's Nest is local today.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, it is, and that's really the attraction as such.
It is still standing. Allied bomb is mis hitting it.
They wanted to knock it out, but they missed it.
But it was the fiftieth birthday present from Hitler's in
a circle and it's perched alone amid alpine splendor. It's
(08:04):
kind of like a Bond villain's leah when you first
clap eyes on it, this lodge just looming out of
the mountaintops. So today it's a restaurant and they have
got a memorial war there decrying the abject horrors of
its previous owner. But the setting itself. Check it seriously
is pinched yourself stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah that sounds really interesting. Okay cool. Hey, thank you
so much, Mike. I will make sure all of Mike's
advice on soaking up Saltzburg is on the News Talks.
He'd be website Newstalks. He'd beat dot Code, Owlings, ed Ford,
slash Lifestyle. You'll be able to find his article right
there for more.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
From Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live to News
Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be make Yardley's our travel corresponding. He's here this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey Mike, good morning Jack. All lies on some Peter's
Square tonight. How do you think Rome's hotels are well?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Interesting? You asked that because as soon as you know,
the news came through, I was on I was on
breakfast this week, so I was getting up and doing
the early morning shifts, and the news came through what
like eight thirty or so on Monday night, and I thought, oh,
it'll be interesting to see if our correspondent can hot
tail it from London to Rome by the time we're
on ere tomorrow morning, and whether or not they'll be
(00:44):
able to get her a get her a hotel enemy
And she was there fine, made it with penny of
time and got a hotel. But yes, I suspect there
might have been a little bit of surge pricing, just
a just a hunt, just a little hunch. Yeah, and
my mind, me and that Christopher Luxen's and like a
you know, the standard the standards his hotel, he's probably
in like a three and a half star or something,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, I'd say he's down via the where all the
luxury hotels up. But interestingly, according to booking dot Com,
at the moment, Rome is ninety five percent full of
the amazing thing is And I've always found this incredible
about Rome. They have ninety eight thousand hotel rooms in
that city.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Ah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I think it isn't it. I don't think anything could
sell it out because yeah, the inventory is just so massive.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah wow, that's incredible. Okay, yeah, it'll be amazing to
watch that funeral tonight just after eight o'clock New Zealand,
of course, but we're turning our attention this morning to
a location just down the road relatively speaking, and Salzburg. So,
Salsburg sort of feels kind of like it was kind
of made for tourism.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Ah, totally. It's it's as if tourism's planets were just
perfectly aligned over Saltzburg, because you've got that perfectly preserved
old town, You've got amazing gardens, Baroque churches, one of
Europe's largest intact medieval fortresses, all cradled in Alpine grandeur,
(02:10):
and then overlay that jack with its music Meca status.
Wolfgang Amadas, Mozart and of course the Von Traps, so
it really has all the elements.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So where would you go to get a good sense
of Mozart's life.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, I think the main shopping street is we should
head first because that's where you will find Mozart's family home.
He's got this fabulous pestle painted townhouse and that's where
he lived for most of his life, twenty five of
his thirty five years. He died of kidney disease at yeah,
a ridiculously young age. But inside that townhouse there are
so many amazing artifacts, like you can see his childhood viola,
(02:48):
the square piano he played on the claver chord on
which he composed his final work, Requiem, which was played
for his own funeral. There is this stunning cafe about
three hundred and fifty years old, called Cafe Tomasselli. He
was a regular bier Jack and man, he was ahead
of the curve. It was very partial to Almond Milk.
(03:10):
Oh wow, so way ahead of the trend. Yes, And
of course in a city swollen with his music, there
are just so many concert halls every night that just
before Mozart's music. Best of all, though, Jack Mozart kogle.
These are well sort of Mozart immortalized in chocolate. They're
(03:31):
a mash up of chocolate, pistachio and Masipan Mozart balls.
Definitely get your fill of his balls.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Wow, yes, yes, so to speak. What about the sound
of music.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, this is the amazing thing about Saltzburg. Despite the
movie's oscars acclaim, it is still really unfamiliar to a
lot of Europeans. And the reason for that was when
it was released, much of Central and Eastern Europe didn't
screen it because its Nazi themes were deemed two raw
(04:07):
too soon for movie audiences. So a lot of locals
in Salzburg, yes, they will see the souvenirs, but they'll
have no affinity or knowledge of the of the movie itself.
So yeah, many Austrians never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's what like the sixtieth anniversary of that film, Mate.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It is incredible and it's estimated that even though the
locals aren't really up the play with the sound of music,
forty percent of visitors to Saltzburg are lured there by
the movie ringing in its ears. So it is very
much you know, the Lord of the Rings Austrian style,
And there are just so many incredible movie locations where
(04:47):
you feel like you've just walked into the movie, particularly
places like Mirabelle Gardens, you know where they did the
do rey Me piece in the movie. It is just
as it was back in nineteen sixty five. Non Burg Abbey.
There are still twenty seven Benedictine nuns in that abbey,
and even though you can't actually see much of the abbey,
(05:09):
you can go inside the church and if you go
there at six forty five in the morning, Jack, you
can actually hear the nuns perform near daily Gregorian chants
Maria not included.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I have to say, also countless time. So what about
dining destinations where as good for a taste of Saltzburg.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes, well, aside from binging on mosart balls, it's hard
to beat stiff to scaleless and pizza. Now, these are
the sellers of Saint Peter's Abbey and it may well
be the oldest operating restaurant in Europe. So you've got
this sort of like cave like cloister setting in this
restaurant and they have been serving diner's jack since eight
(05:52):
hundred and three AD. Isn't that craze. They do really
good schnitzel with parsley potatoes and cranberry confie. Really good
spinish dumplings, by the way, But we're whever you dine
in the city. Salzburger knock on is a staple dessert
that you've got to absolutely stuff yourself with. So this
(06:16):
is this gigantic sweet soup fle It salutes the three
peaks that backdrop the city and it's got cranberry confee
icing sugar topped. It's so big, the soufla I reckon
you could virtually ski jump off it. It is just amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, oh so good. So beyond town, do you have
any recommended excursions?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, Well, when I was there a couple of weeks
ago with Trafalgar, we jaunted to the Bejeweled Lakes district
of Austria. Absolutely stunning, very much like the Southern Lakes
of New Zealand's because the glacially fed, so you get
those very vivid turquoise and milky blue colors. One of
the best spots is Munsie. It's a church there, gorgeous
(07:00):
Benedicting church was where the marriage of Maria and the
Baron was filmed in the sound of music. But every
I laughed about this. There's a Saudi shake. He jets
into Monzi every summer to his lake house and he
brings with him twenty three wives. That would take some wrangling. Jack.
(07:20):
Just across the border from Salzburg into Germany and the
Bavarian Alps, we took a ride up Germany's highest mountain road.
It takes you up two thousand meters from Auba Salzburg.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh Man, two thousand Okay, it is pretty high, like
Mount Hutt.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Really are Yeah, yes, that like that's.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Kind of where Hitler's Eagle's Nest is local today.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, it is, and that's really the attraction as such.
It is still standing. Allied bomb is mis hitting it.
They wanted to knock it out, but they missed it.
But it was the fiftieth birthday present from Hitler's in
a circle and it's perched alone amid alpine splendor. It's
(08:04):
kind of like a Bond villain's leah when you first
clap eyes on it, this lodge just looming out of
the mountaintops. So today it's a restaurant and they have
got a memorial war there decrying the abject horrors of
its previous owner. But the setting itself. Check it seriously
is pinched yourself stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah that sounds really interesting. Okay cool. Hey, thank you
so much, Mike. I will make sure all of Mike's
advice on soaking up Saltzburg is on the News Talks.
He'd be website Newstalks. He'd beat dot Code, Owlings, ed Ford,
slash Lifestyle. You'll be able to find his article right
there for more.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
From Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live to News
Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
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