29 June ’04, Tuesday. Salzburg otherwise know as “Sound of Music”…..well not quite !!
At least in the eyes and hearts and souls of the Salzburg-ians. It may be true that most of the tourists arrive in Salzburg with the one objective…going to the places that the Sound of Music was filmed or were the Von Trapp family really had their roots set. Some hotels have the music of the movie playing in the lobbies and hallways and the same may be said of some restaurants as well. The dollars (Euro’s) are spent and spent well just because of the story and film. I wont get into the discussions that abound here about the movie and how it was made out of context but they are many. Anyway, today was set aside for the tours of the city and all it has to offer, and the Fortress Hohensalzburg. The city tour took in the Mirabell Palace, Mozarteum, County Theatre, Mozart’s Residence, church of the Holy Trinity and I could go on forever…but it only lasted about 2 hours and we all found it very good. Then in the afternoon we took in the Fortress on the hill overlooking the city. It was also quite interesting and the setting was outstanding. The structure was almost completely left untouched from WWII with exception of some broken windows. We were able to see the inside of about 10% of the fortress but that still took over an hour by it’s self. After our tour we could walk the grounds and walls for as long as we could take it and that was at least another hour. The views from there were very beautiful. I must tell you that Drew was having a little bit of a tough time at the last of our walk but once we introduced the ice cream cones things changed and all went well from there on. If I had to admit it to someone, I was with him and the ice cream helped me too…. Tomorrow….More Salzburg and “Sound Of Music”…for real, songs and everything guaranteed
At least in the eyes and hearts and souls of the Salzburg-ians. It may be true that most of the tourists arrive in Salzburg with the one objective…going to the places that the Sound of Music was filmed or were the Von Trapp family really had their roots set. Some hotels have the music of the movie playing in the lobbies and hallways and the same may be said of some restaurants as well. The dollars (Euro’s) are spent and spent well just because of the story and film. I wont get into the discussions that abound here about the movie and how it was made out of context but they are many. Anyway, today was set aside for the tours of the city and all it has to offer, and the Fortress Hohensalzburg. The city tour took in the Mirabell Palace, Mozarteum, County Theatre, Mozart’s Residence, church of the Holy Trinity and I could go on forever…but it only lasted about 2 hours and we all found it very good. Then in the afternoon we took in the Fortress on the hill overlooking the city. It was also quite interesting and the setting was outstanding. The structure was almost completely left untouched from WWII with exception of some broken windows. We were able to see the inside of about 10% of the fortress but that still took over an hour by it’s self. After our tour we could walk the grounds and walls for as long as we could take it and that was at least another hour. The views from there were very beautiful. I must tell you that Drew was having a little bit of a tough time at the last of our walk but once we introduced the ice cream cones things changed and all went well from there on. If I had to admit it to someone, I was with him and the ice cream helped me too…. Tomorrow….More Salzburg and “Sound Of Music”…for real, songs and everything guaranteed