The Sound of Music
On Christmas Day, we all went on ‘The Original Sound of Music tour.’ It. Was. Awesome. They drove us all around Salzburg to see the sites in the city and also outside the city limits. It was beautiful, and actually very interesting! I was shocked to realize how many liberties Hollywood took. I mean… I always understood that Maria was no Julie Andrews, but really! For example, you’ll recall the final screenshot as Maria, the Captain and the Children climb over the mountain? Well… that mountain is on the border to Germany. So, to avoid the Nazis, the Von Traps fled into Germany? Silly. Anyway, it was amazing, we went to see the Gazebo where Liesl and Rolf sing Sixteen Going on Seventeen and Maria and the Captain sing Something Good. You can no longer go into the Gazebo because some 70 year old woman was trying to frolic around on the benches like Liesl and broke her hip. Too funny. We also saw the church in which the wedding took place. And later we went on a Salt Mine tour, which was fun! On the bus ride back from the Salt Mines, we drove past the mountain on which Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest is situated! The tour guide over emphasized that the Eagle’s Nest is NOT where Hitler lived. The Eagle’s Nest functioned as a conference center and tea-house. His second home was somewhere below in a compound that was destroyed in the final bombardment.
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