Sound of Music

Today we left some little tiny village and went on a coach to Saltzburg. 'Berg' means castle and 'burg' means mountain. So today we were in the mountains of Austria, where Sound of Music was filmed. We saw lots of places from the movie including where they were married and where they rode along the river. Apparently, like most Hollywood productions, the accuracy of the story leaves a lot to be desired. The mountain that they climbed to go to Switzerland actually leads to Germany. The real Von Trap family actually caught a train to Italy and neither of them were Austrian. Maria was. But she wasn't a nun. It was interesting though and Saltzburg is a very pretty city. It is also Mozart's birthplace. What I liked most was a graveyard just below the fort/castle. The graves were so pretty with flowers growing all over them. There are no gravestones but fancy wrought iron tombstones. I had some huge cherries. It was interesting that in Austria, the sausages are called frankfurts and in Frankfurt they are called Viennese sausages. Go figure.
We rejoined the boat at Passau in Germany, after driving across the border where we found out, in Hitler's birthplace (in Austria) that Hitler's mother was not married when he was born so he wasn't really a Hitler after all. We are now sailing again and are in a hurry. There is a bridge up ahead that, because of the rain, we will only clear by 10cm. We also have to hurry because a section of the Danube Main Canal will be closed on Sunday because they are having a triathlon.
After dinner, there was a Barvarian concert. A one man band. He pretended that he knew no English but I am sure he did. He was very funny and included people from the audience in his act. He got Adrian's dad out to play the euponium and Sue out to play some other funny instrument. He put a funny hat on them as well. Les is very good at hamming it up anyway so it was pretty funny. The guy was also a pretty good musician and played a variety of instruments. What a big day!