Austria Christmas Markets - Day 5 Salzburg

I rushed this morning to get to the train station on time.  Not that I overslept, but I was worried that I had not given myself enough time to walk the almost 1 mile to the station.  I shouldn't have worried, not only did I make it on time for the originally scheduled departure, but the train was running 20 minutes late.

The train was half empty, so I had the row to myself and got to watch the scenery, what there was of it.  We did get further delayed by technical issues at a station up ahead, and I was stuck looking at a wall for about a half hour.  

We finally made it to Salzburg, where it was pouring rain. I decided not to make the LONG walk to the hotel, downloaded the app for public transportation,  bought a ticket and hopped on a tram.  Yes, the right tram, thank you Google Maps.

The hotel I'm staying at is part of an old monastary.  Another single room, this one with no balcony, but the room is awesome and I love the pocket bed. Bathroom is long and narrow, so requires some interesting maneuvering. It *is* a very old building. 

I hung out in my room a while, did some laundry, and rested.  The main market is very close and I wanted to experience it at night.  I actually hadn't done that yet.  So I puttered about waiting for it to get dark.  I walked out the front door to find that the rain had changed to snow.

From the direction of my hotel, I come up on Mozart Platz first.  This is where there is an outdoor beer garden and skating rink (hence the purple lights).  There are actually 3 squares connecting to each other and this is the first.  The other two are where the market is.

Go around the corner, and there it is.  The snow was really starting to pick up at this point.  I headed in and started to check out the stalls.

They had a choir singing Christmas carols in front ot the Cathedral, which was lovely.

This is the third square (not sure of the name) with an odd glass tree?  Just as many stalls as the other square (Cathedral square).

And back again to the main square, where I decided to have a "pizza" crepe (tomatoes and shreaded mozzarella that did not melt as it was so cold..LOL).  And my one cup of gluwein.

It was just snowy and pretty, but super cold and wet.  

It made everything look very festive

I decided that I had plenty of fun for one night and I get two more full days...I headed back and will get some rest.