Travel Space 4 U

The 75 m-high Golling Waterfall is close to the St. Nicholas church.
It’s as 30-35 minutes walking from Golling center.
Ticket for visitors – 2.5 Euro.

Golling is a small pretty town on Salzach river just 25 km south of the capital city of Salzburg in the Hallein district of Salzburg. It is ringed by beautifull mountains on the one side and by thick forests to the other side.
View from our guesthouse

Spruce buildings with many shops on the main street named Markt street

A huge amount of different hotels and guesthouses and very friendly people

This summer vacation we’ve visited Austria.
We decided to find accommodation in small town near Salzburg (30 minutes by train). We’ve ordered double room via internet in beauty house of frau Elisabeth Rettenbacher (Möslstrasse 198
5440 Golling an der Salzach, Phone: +43 (0) 6244 4964) – very communicable and hard-working woman.

Although she doesn’t speak English we didn’t have any problem to solve all questions together.

She picked up us from Salzburg airport in the evening of our arrival.
We liked very much her breakfast including any kind of home-made jams.
Nice ladies in Golling tourist center (Markt 51 ,5440 Golling ,Tel: +43-(0)6244-4356 ,Fax: +43-(0)6244-7766 , office@golling.info) gave us all needed information about travel routes, transportation, culture events. We’ve got also maps of Golling, Salzburg and Tennengau area where we could buy tickets on all kind of transport only for €2 for person.

The last day was Saturday. We went to Vyshegrad, the ancient city surrounded by a wall. It was a large park nicely decorated with rather rare visitors. There also was a big cathedral on the top of the place.

Our next tourist object was Botanic Garden. It was very spacious, beautiful and natural. A lot of ponds and brooks, ducks and small birds, big old trees. The weather was at last really warm, so the hike was wonderful.

There were rare visitors: families and single persons, obviously the citizens. In the evening we came to a modern new theatre to watch “Lanterna Magica”, the performance disappointed us. It was something of a circus without understandable idea. The general impression of Prague was of a very good tourist service, nice and very polite public, really it was worth to be visited!

The third day was a little warmer. We decided to go by train to suburbs to have a look at the country. It was Karlstein with a castle on a mount.

All the road from the station to the castle was full of souvenir booths. We missed the train back and waited in the station for an hour. In the evening we visited a jazz club. We had to order our table beforehand as it was always full. The entering fare is modest: 80 crowns. The performance began at 9 o’clock. Three musicians were there, all of them celebrities: a pianist, a contrabass and a drummer. The public was of jazz fans and the atmosphere wonderful. Almost half of the public were women. A young girl was serving with beer and nuts, moving quietly between the tables lit with candles. As the room was full, there were many people sitting on the stairs in the hall.
The next day was the wedding itself. It took place in the Town Hall, the ceremony was special and impressive.

When the married couple came out into the square in their wonderful clothes, the people collected in the square applauded. The celebration continued in a restaurant.

On the next day we went to Prague Grad high on the mount, you could see the whole city below from the observation landing: thousands of red roofs, the Vltava river, wonderful view.

A big cathedral. At 1 o’clock there is always a concert in Lobcovitch palace. Three musicians: a piano, violin and flute play classical music. Downstairs there is Karlov bridge full of sculptures on Christian motives. Further we moved to Jewish Quarters with two synagogues as museums. There are few Jews left in Prague.

In the evening we were in a popular beer bar, where a nice old musician with accordion played special songs for every nation presented in the bar. He just came up and asked, where we are from. There were men and women there in a friendly atmosphere with simple food: beer, salad and meat. The house was always full.

At the end of March our group of three came to Prague. We were to be guests at the wedding. We had already read in the Internet of cold weather to be on these days in Prague. When we landed we could see even a thin layer of snow in the street.

It was really very cold. We found the bus stop and then the tram and after long wandering about unfriendly cold streets reached our hotel at last. I forgot to say that first of all we bought a 100 crown ticket each of us for a whole day for each kind of traffic. It was very simple and saved us a lot of time and efforts. What was really surprising to me, it was underground without any supervisors and control, you only had to buy this wonderful 100 crown ticket. As I understood, it proved to be economical for municipality to believe passengers, as the ticket-collectors were rare. Our hotel was just in the center of the city, very nice and comfortable. After a short rest we went to the Town Hall to look at the moving figures round the big clock that come out every hour.

The large square was full of tourists, most of them young, from all parts of the world, there were a lot of young couples from the Far East. I think it is a rather cheap place, good for young people, the tourist service in Prague is really good. There were a couple of museums there, Salvador Daly and Chocolate museum, we didn’t enter them, but we could watch in a big confectionery store the process of preparing caramel, fulfilled by two workers for public observation. Really, they do much to attract tourists!

This small quarter of Edinburgh is close to noisy center but here you are in another world of quietness and peace.

Open daily from 10am (except 25 Dec and 1 Jan),
closing: 4pm Nov to Feb | 6pm Mar | 7pm Apr to Sep | 6pm Oct

Glasshouses close: 3.30pm Nov to Feb 5pm Mar to Oct

Garden entry is FREE with a charge for the Glasshouses. 
the West Gate is closed during construction of the John Hope Gateway. Enter by the East Gate on Inverleith Row or North Gate on Inverleith Place.