Here are some nice panoramic photos of Salzburg. There's a really nice hotel in the center of the old town, made up of five old houses strung together and converted into a hotel, exactly the kind of place we usually stay in. But this was a last minute trip, and Christmas, so we got stuck with some pretty awful choices. We stayed at the Sheraton, which is outside of town, thankfully, because it's corporate office park look would have clashed violently with the rest of the place. I have no memory of the place other than utter blandness, and the fact that we were forced to have a "compulsory gala Christmas Dinner" in their function room. If you can picture hundreds of package tourists trapped in a big room being compelled to have a "gala", you can imagine how festive my Christmas was. I also remember some sort of health club across the street we had access to, and we went in the sauna, which, to our surprise, was full of naked people of both sexes chatting away. A good example of the different views on nudity held by Americans and Europeans, and why, once in a blue moon, the American prudishness might not be such a bad thing.