Switzerland was such a beautiful place, very expensive, but quite beautiful. Lucerne is a charming city surrounded by mountains and wrapping around a lake. The old city has quite a romantic feeling to it. I would imagine that it being near Christmas time helped with that. All the bridges over the lake have so much character and most have twinkling lights. Some even had garlands. Swimming around the bridges were white swans, at either end were sweet old buildings and right in the middle of the bridge picture below was a shop. Do you know what else was great? Chocolate shops. Everywhere.
Salzberg, Austria takes top 3 for favourite places without a doubt. It has the same sweet romantic charm that Lucerne has, but it had more to offer at the time of year I visited. Most notably the Christmas market and The Sound of Music tour. I'm a sucker for pretty much anything Christmas related so the market was right up my alley. Gifts, decorations, mulled wine, delicious sweet treats and sausages.. It even smells like Christmas! The sound of music tour is something to be done at any time of year and shouldn't be missed, though with a little research and a good map you could easily save some money and do the tour yourself. Salzberg was also our first castle, and castles are always good.
The people in both countries were friendly and helpful. After being in Greece for so long and then in Italy, these 2 countries offered a more "western" feeling and felt much closer to home.
I would absolutely visit again and very much hope I get the chance to at some point.
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