pianist from the sea

Chapter 285 Salzburg
The Salzburg Music Festival (German: Salzburger Festspiele, English: Salzburg Festival) was founded in 1920 and is held in Salzburg, Austria.

This is different from the Ruhr Piano Festival, which is just a pure piano feast, while the Salzburg Music Festival is the highest-level and most prestigious music festival in the world, and one of the three major classical music festivals in Europe.

Formerly known as the Mozart Festival, the overall reputation of the Salzburg Music Festival is not particularly high. However, since a series of famous conductors took over as conductors of the festival, the status of the Salzburg Music Festival has skyrocketed.

As a conductor, conductor Emperor Karajan has personally led and conducted the music festival for more than 30 years, making the Salzburg Music Festival soaring in fame, completely leaving behind all other music festivals, and becoming the most popular music festival in the world. One of the sections.

But the only thing that's a bit magical is...

Originally Karajan's royal orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic gradually left the Salzburg Music Festival.

The current conductor, no, to be precise, it should be the former conductor. A few days ago, the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon, announced that he was leaving the Berlin Philharmonic, and the next conductor was scheduled to take over without stopping.

As the former conductor, Sir Simon, he moved the Berlin Philharmonic away from the Salzburg Music Festival and decided to attend the Baden-Baden Music Festival.

Baden means bath in German, so to some extent, the Berlin Philharmonic successfully joined the bathing alliance.

However, the Salzburg Music Festival has not become gradually lonely because of the departure of the Berlin Philharmonic. Its influence on a global scale is still amazing.

Fu Tiao followed the three members of his band and Hubble as his mentor, and the five of them took the ICE to the city next to Salzburg, Munich.

They needed to change trains in Munich and no longer take a Deutsche Bahn train, but an Austrian Railways train to Salzburg.

The transfer time was not long, only about ten minutes, but even if it was only such a short time, not long after Fu Diao, Mira, and Taha got on the train to Salzburg, Kami Luo then walked up to the crowd with three glasses of beer, each weighing one liter.

After passing the beer in his hands to Fu Diao and Taha, he lay down on the train seat very casually, took a sip of the beer in the cup, looked extremely relaxed, and said with a smile.

"Nuo, dark beer is sold at the station. Although it is not packed in a beer cup, this plastic cup is okay, which can let the taste of the beer burst out... tons, tons, tons, ha! Sure enough, I want it. To drink dark beer, you have to come to Munich. I really don’t know why the dark beer I drank in Berlin tasted so strange, it was really disgusting.”

"Berlin...you drink white beer, right? I don't like the taste of dark beer, but it's still acceptable." After Taha took a sip of the beer in the cup, he leaned forward slightly and looked at the person who was looking at him. Fu Tiao looked out the window and said with a smile: "Dior, what about you?"

"I?"

Fu Diao didn't expect that Taha was actually asking him. He reached out and took the beer handed over by Camilo. After thinking about it for a while, he didn't drink it. Instead, he handed it to Mira who was sitting aside with an expectant look on her face. Shaked his head.

“I don’t have any ideas about beer. I’m just thinking about what we’re going to play at the Salzburg Music Festival. I feel like there’s still a little room for improvement.”

"Room for improvement? Please! Please spare us, we are really tired! And... don't give Mira alcohol! She is still a child!"

Camilo complained as he snatched the glass of beer from Mira's hand, put it aside, and smiled playfully at Fu Tiao.

"Mila is not old enough to drink legally yet. If you ask her to go out to buy alcohol on the street, I'll tell you what! So..."

"I'm not young anymore! I just look young! But I'm old enough to drink! If you don't believe me, I'll go back to the street and buy you a drink...see?"

Mira protested loudly from the side, but her tone weakened as she spoke.

"As long as I show him my ID card..."

"That's right, you see if you go out on the street without your ID card, you can't buy alcohol, so Mira, just watch us drink. But don't be discouraged, I brought this for you~"

Seeing Mira like this, Camilo couldn't help but smile and took out three plastic bottles filled with orange liquid from his pocket.

"Freshly squeezed orange juice, I saw them squeeze it with my own eyes. This 500ml bottle costs about three or four euros, so in order not to make you feel disappointed, I bought three bottles! It's also about ten euros, and our beer The price is the same! How about it, surprise or no surprise, surprise or no surprise?"

"Um...thank you?"

Mira looked at the orange juice in Camilo's hand, twitched the corner of her mouth, and whispered a thank you, then took out a 10-euro note from her pocket and handed it to him, and said angrily: "No, thank you for helping me. I bought orange juice, thank you."

"You're welcome, it's only 10 euros, no big deal!"

Camilo grinned cheerfully and did not think about the banknotes in Mira's hand, but his smile was soon disrupted by Taha's palm.

Taha said angrily to Camilo.

"Camilo! Don't bully Mila. Although Mila is small, Mila is not small either! Be careful if she turns around and jumps up to hit you on the knee!"

"Taha!"

Mira was half angry, half not angry, waving her fists and beating the two people opposite.

But perhaps because she was too short, she couldn't even hit Taha and Camilo who were sitting across from her with her fists. However, when she moved forward far enough, she almost lost her balance and fell from the seat.

Fortunately, Fu Tiao quickly reached out to stop her, otherwise she might have had to kowtow to Taha and Camilo on the spot.

Mira rubbed the fat layer that hit Fu Diao's arm because she lost her balance, sat back down and whispered to Fu Diao.

"Thank you... Dio."

"It's okay, you're welcome. If you can, just drink my beer. If you don't want to drink the orange juice, just give it to me. I actually quite like drinking orange juice."

"Then... thank you very much?"

Mira thanked Fu Diao again, reached out and grabbed the beer from Camilo's hand, glared at him hard, and then drank it.

Camilo looked at her with innocent eyes and shrugged at Fu Diao.

"Dior, why don't you drink? I think the legal drinking age in China is not 21, right?"

"Do not……"

After Fu Tiao unscrewed the orange juice in his hand, he took a casual sip and raised his brows slightly.

This orange juice is surprisingly good.

He took a big sip and smiled at Camilo.

"To be precise, it should be one or two years old, because when we were children, we would be taken to the banquet, and our father would always like to use chopsticks to order a little bit of wine to feed us when he was drinking with others. , so we don’t have any so-called drinking restrictions at all.”

"Hiss... why do you suddenly feel a burst of envy?"

Camilo clutched his heart in pain and said with envy: "I suddenly thought of my previous school camp trip, when we went skiing in the Alps. At that time, we lived in a room on the mountain, and we could buy one downstairs. I drank a lot, but because I was not old enough, I started thinking of all kinds of ways, which really took a lot of effort, for example..."

Camilo pretended to be holding a piece of identification, squinting at the information on it, putting it down and raising it from time to time, as if he was looking at something, and then said in a deep and thick male voice.

"The person up here...is that you?"

After the words fell, he immediately changed his tone, pinched his throat and pretended to be naive: "It's me, it's me, the right one is me!"

"is it?"

"Yes! At that time... I was still very fat, and I hadn't shaved my beard yet! This was really me!"

"Really you?"

"It's really me!"

"I said he is not you!"

"Yes! Oh, store manager, you are right! I said this is not me, this is not me! I don't know why this photo doesn't match me. I'll take a photo to identify myself. This was the one they gave me during the certification, and I said this is not me. They insisted on saying this was me, but there was no other way. I could match everything except the face!"

Camilo looked confident, then raised his finger and added.

"Especially the age!"

puff!
Before Fu Diao could do anything, Mira next to her sprayed, and the beer rushed out of her nasal cavity. She laughed so hard that she coughed repeatedly. She tried to hold it back, but it only made her cough louder. She felt extremely uncomfortable.

And such a cough made the eyes of the people around them focus on them. Taha could only sigh helplessly, put down the beer in his hand, stood up and walked to Mira, reaching out to pat her on the back. .

"How's it going? Are you okay? Mira?"

"Okay, pfft...ahem, okay, ahem...much better!"

While coughing, Mira reluctantly said OK to Taha: "I'm sorry Taha, I'm really much better, you believe me!"

"..." Taha looked at Mira, who was still coughing hard over there, and clicked her tongue twice. He just continued to reach out and pat her back, trying to make her feel better, and then glanced at Ka, who looked innocent on the side. Milo said angrily.

"Don't tell bad jokes while drinking. Although I know this may be true, haven't you noticed that Taha is drinking?"

"Sorry sorry my fault!"

Camilo knelt down without any hesitation and apologized to Mira.

Although it may not have anything to do with him, looking at Mira who was laughing with runny nose and tears in front of him, he couldn't say anything, so he could only shrug helplessly, reached into his pocket, took out a tissue and handed it to Mira.

"So...are you okay?"

"fine……"

After trying hard for a long time, Mira finally stopped her laughter, took the napkin handed over by Camilo, wiped the marks on her face, and whispered to the three of them.

"Sorry to trouble you all."

"It's okay, it's okay, as long as you're okay." Camilo waved his hand immediately.

Taha returned to his seat and said helplessly with a reproachful look on his face: "Next time you listen to Camilo speak, don't hold a beer glass while listening. Who knows whether he will come suddenly. It’s funny.”

"Yes, yes, don't listen to me! I'm really sorry this time..."

Camilo continued to apologize to Mira, while Fu Diao smiled at the interaction between the three of them and did not participate in it.

He took a sip of orange juice from his glass and looked out the window.

The scenery outside the window is more magnificent than the scenery in Germany.

Because here, they successfully entered the Alps.

Unlike the high-speed trains in China, they did not go directly through the mountains and walked from one end to the other. Instead, they shuttled between the mountains and brought the unmodified beautiful scenery into the window.

Maybe there are towering mountains on the left, and the lake between the mountains on the left.

Just like the Windows

Everything seemed so calm and peaceful.

At this moment, Fu Tiao suddenly understood why so many Germans, Austrians, and Swiss people liked this mountain range so much.

And why they are so obsessed with forests and mountains.

The sport they are most passionate about is not various ball games, but the simplest hiking.

I run [-] to [-] kilometers every day, traveling through deep mountains and forests, feeling the surprise of mountains and rivers with no way out, villages with dark flowers and bright flowers, and the excitement of seeing magnificent scenery appear in front of me at every moment.

Whoa!
The two intertwined pieces of grass disappeared in front of Fu Diao, and the dark and forbidding stones occupied his sight. However, Fu Diao had just taken out his mobile phone from his pocket and had not had time to take a photo.

"Pity……"

Fu Diao shook his head slightly and put his phone in his pocket.

The three people beside them didn't know when they stopped arguing, but looked at everything outside the window very quietly.

After hearing Fu Diao's words, Camilo was also a little emotional.

"This is my first time coming to the Alps. I have always heard from friends that the scenery here is very good, but I never imagined it was so beautiful."

"Yeah, it's really beautiful. It would be nice if I saw this scenery a little later. The sunset, the dim yellow sunlight shining on the wisp of blue smoke, might be even more intoxicating..." Taha Nods as well.

Listening to everyone's speech, Mira said nothing. She just flipped through her mobile phone, made a registration on it, and spoke to Fu Diao.

"Dior, do you like the view just now?"

"Ok?"

Fu Tiao was stunned, looked at Mira behind him, and nodded slightly.

"I really like it a bit. I don't know if the route back will take this way, and I don't know if I can still feel the beauty if I go through this way when I turn back..."

"If you all like it, then let's go hiking! I saw that there is a direct path to the nearest station here. It only takes 30 kilometers of hiking. It's not too far. We can walk there in the morning and get there in the evening. You can even bring a tent. I just checked the night view and humidity here..."

At this moment, Mira's rigor as a German suddenly emerged. Without waiting for the three of them to speak, she looked at her phone and began to calculate what they would need to do if she wanted to come to this place to see such scenery on foot. Prepare.

In just a few minutes, she planned on her phone what kind of preparations they would need to make if they wanted to see such a scenery again.

She raised her phone, looked at the three of them, and said.

"So...do you want to go?"

"..."

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, then shook their heads helplessly.

Fu Diao stretched out his hand to rub her head, but after thinking about it, he still put it on her shoulder and patted her gently: "Thank you, but I think it's better to forget it. Although I really want to watch it again, but This thirty-kilometer hike is really a bit..."

"Huh? This is only 30 kilometers. Even a round trip is only 60 kilometers. Normal people can run 50 kilometers in a day, right?"

"Come on, a marathon is only 42 kilometers. We are not Germans, and our interest in hiking is really average. Even if we are not hiking, even if we are cycling, 50 kilometers a day will be very tiring, right?"

"That's it!"

Camilo said on the side, and Taha also offered some help.

The two of them blurted out the topic in confusion, and then gently touched the cold sweat on their backs.

Hiking over 30 kilometers a day, are you kidding me?Do you really think everyone is a Germanic superman?

Seeing everyone like this, Mira crossed out the plan with a little regret, and then continued to poke and poke on her phone.

It seemed like she was planning to run more than 30 kilometers alone with her bag on her back.

Mira's actions made Camilo and Taha feel a pimple in their hearts. They were also a little afraid of what problems might occur if Mira went alone. After all, as the bass is a very important part of the quartet, there must be no problems. of.

But if they were asked to accompany Mira, their legs would feel a little weak.

They can run more than 60 kilometers back and forth, which basically completes a month's exercise. When they finish running back, their legs probably won't be theirs, right?
For a moment, the atmosphere was frozen like this. Camilo and Taha were drinking beer from their glasses. One looked to the left and the other to the right. The main one didn't know each other.

Mira, on the other hand, kept typing on her mobile phone and seemed to have begun preparing her schedule after the concert in advance.

Only Fu Tiao continued to look at the scenery outside the window, thinking about music, and waiting for the car to pass through the mountains and arrive at the city surrounded by mountains.

Western Austria, gateway to the Alps, capital of the state of Salzburg.

The city of Salzburg!
It is almost a step away from the German border. It is also a favorite tourist destination for Germans, especially Munich people. They love and hate this place.

What Germans often say is that the most successful thing about Salzburg or Austria is to turn Mozart into an Austrian and the mustache into a German.

But despite saying this, it did not affect them from driving or taking a train through the 120 kilometers to get here.

The train gradually slowed down. Listening to the sound of the train staff announcing the station and the movements of people around him, Fu Diao turned his attention away from the scenery outside the window that was beginning to become more regular. He stood up and spoke to the three people around him.

"Okay, we've arrived in Salzburg, let's get up and pack our bags, and get ready for our first music festival concert in Salzburg."

"it is good!"

The three of them responded at the same time, got up, packed their luggage, and followed Fu Tiao.

After the vehicle stops and opens the door, step out.

(End of this chapter)