Travelogue: European Roadtrip Part 6 (The Sound of Music Tour)

Part 1 - Hamburg, Germany Part 2 - Berlin, Germany Part 3 - Dresden, Germany  Part 4 - Prague, Czech Republic  Part 5 - Salzburg, Austria   The highlight of this roadtrip has got to be the Sound of Music day tour we took from Salzburg.  I felt like a kid all over again, listening to the all the familiar tunes from the movie.  Except this time around, I was no longer watching it in front of the TV -- I was right there at the very scene, the very sight and the very place where my all-time favorite movie was taken.      All my childhood memories flooded back to me as I reminisced those happy times with my cousins singing along the songs, those endless summer days running around my mom's garden  and pretending that I am sixteen going on seventeen and needing an older and wiser dashing young lad...    I have found my happy place!     Someday, when I have kids of my own, I hope they appreciate the movie as I did and  visit this place and reminisce happy childhood as I have!  And hope they get to visit it too with a dashing young lad by their side as I have.    Below are snippets of the movie's song lyrics and the spot where the scene was shot.  Enjoy!  
   
♪ ♫  The hills are alive with the sound of music!  With songs they have sung for a thousand years... ♪ ♫
    ♪ ♫ Doe, a deer a female deer Ray, a drop of golden sun... ♪ ♫

  ♪ ♫ Raindrops and roses and blue satin sashes.. When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad... ♪ ♫

    ♪ ♫ How do you solve a problem like Maria... ♪ ♫

  ♪ ♫ I am sixteen going on seventeen...  Totally unprepared am I to face the world of men!  ♪ ♫

 

The wedding church of Maria and Captain von Trapp
    Not related to The Sound of Music but the town of Mondsee, Austria -- specifically at Cafe Braun, has undeniably the BEST apple strudel in the world.  I still dream of it to this day, 5 years after tasting it!

     ♪ ♫Climb every mountain... Ford every stream  Follow every rainbow ♪ ♫ 

    Just have one regret on this tour: we forgot to take a picture of an Edelweiss!  We did get to sing-a-long with it on the bus and I was doing so with all out full emotion. That is until somebody blurted out, "Oh I didn't know Edelweiss is a flower!"  I had to burst into laughter!      See you next week for a quick stop at Wattens, Austria!