The Wanderings of Bonnie and John: Ok Now - Everybody Sing - A1ANA2 -The Hills Are Alive With the Sounds of ...Salzburg!

Salzburg! Sound of Music! Mozart! Castle! Before we came, this was to be the place that we knew we HAD to go to. And we were not disappointed.

After a quick afternoon in Berchtesgaden (home of Hitler's Eagle's Nest - which we didn't see because it was destroyed by the allies so there wouldn't be a "monument" to Hitler - and the lake Konigsee).

Our first night after arriving in Salzburg we went to a Mozart dinner concert by candlelight. The next day we took a ride through the old town, then up to the castle - which was truly awesome. They said that the fortress was never conquered - and it is easy to see why because of its size, its walls of defense, and the steep drop on all sides making any attacker an easy target. After that, we visited the catacombs built into the cliffs and also saw a few Sound of Music sites.

It was a homecoming of sorts for Bonnie - she spent six months here during a college semester overseas. So we took a bus out of town to visit the place that the students stayed. What used to be a 350 year old Austrian boarding house in the middle of nowhere - is now with a Mexican restaurant with a private residence above and a sprawling suburb surrounding it!