The hills are alive...

Bronwyn
Austria
August 30, 2003

   I have certainly wanted to sing that today. We are in Salzburg, where Mozart was born and The Sound of Music was filmed. The town is really pretty and there are no beggars, which was pretty impressive after Budapest. Everywhere I go I can just imagine Julie Andrews whizzing past me with seven kids in tow. In the hostel you can watch the Sound of Music daily at 10:30 am but we didn't have enough time to watch it (although we should have because Craig didn't know the ending). We did go to some sights in Craig's attempt to make me sing on camera, I hate to disappoint but he failed.

Mirabella Gardens, used in that film

   Salzburg itself is nestled among mountains. On the top of these mountains are castles and I don't mean big houses but castles. Castles complete with turrets and horse entrances and kitchen towers etc. We took a funicular to get to one and then wandered around up the top looking for some rolling green hills (to see if we could see some nuns singing and dancing). We heard through hostel gossip the hills were harder to find that you think, no bus route goes there according to a couple of Australians who tried to find them.

   In Salzburg we found ourselves with the Busabout group again. We happened to be on the same route and we keep running into the same people, they travel by bus, us by train. We can go 300km per hour they can't :)



best wishes from
   Bronwyn
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Don't worry Craig, the ending of Sound of Music isnt that great, it just turns out that Maria murdered all the Von Trapp kids on the first night she stayed there, and they are all ghosts but they don't know it. Also Maria and the Captain are the same person, Maria is just a made up personality the Captain invented to help deal with his kids. Oh yeah, and there are lots of Nazis too. And the Loch Ness monster.

Posted by: Peter at September 1, 2003 12:55 AM

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