We left Graz early and got into the rental car. The car had tray tables! Our destination was Salzburger, or Salburg, the city where The Sound of Music was filmed. It is also the city that Mozart was born in and it has a huge midievil fortress on top of a hill. When we left Graz, there was a sighn that said the word “Graz” with a red line through it. We went through a long tunnel and on the other side were the Alps.
The Alps are stinky because the cows poop all the time.
When we got into Salzburg, we saw another mountain.
In the middle of a quart yard there is a statue of Mozart.
We saw a cathedral behind a fountain that squirted water from the horse statues’ nostrils
Our first stop was the nonnenberg abbey. This is the Abby that they have in the sound of music.
Then we headed to the bridge that they cross in The Sound of Music.
We went to the garden that they play in after that. On the way, we saw Mozart’s house. In the gardens we ran around and walked up the steps that they walk up. We also patted a statue dwarf on the head. The same one they pat in the movie.
We had ice cream at a restraunt that Mozart hang out in. The ice cream was huge! One of the flavors was “Mozart flavor.”
The Mozart flavor ice cream
The big bowl of ice cream
We watched the horse drawn car ages by and headed to where they got the idea of the graveyard scene (It was really filmed in a studio in Los Angeles). While we were there we realized that there were catacombs.
The cliff above the graveyard has catacombs. San you see a tiny bit of the fortress? The catacombs are in there too, but you probably won’t see them. They are made of stone with windows coming out of the cliff.
On our way to the car, a nice man who worked at a gambling store had candy to gamble with, but he gave us candy for free. Luckily, he spoke English. We went to our guest house, wich had a collection of English National Geographic magazines. The next morning, Mama left for Sweden to do field work on an island in Lake Vatern.
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