The next morning, we found that Mama had gone. We also found 3 cats.
We drove to the underground parking lot and walked to the cathedral. The cathedral was beautiful.
Inside was the organ that Mozart played.
This is what the U.S.A. did to the cathedral during WWII.
Then, we went to the fortress. It towered above us as we walked closer to it.
Inside the fort, we rented an audio guide of the fort. At first they showed us how the fort developed. It used to be a roman fort first!
The fort in 1553
Next was the torture chambers. They told us hideous stories about the terrible torture devices.
In the tower, the views stretched all over Salzburg and mabe Germany.
They had an Austrian flag at the top.
The fortress was to interesting for me to tell you about, but I can show you pictures…
This was pushed and it had a rope that would wrap around and pull people’s arms and legs off. It was another torture device.
For an afternoon snack, we had a huge apel strudel. Daddy said it was the most beautiful spot he had ever eaten in.
We took the funicular down. It was hot, cramped, and scary in there. We didn’t like it very much.
On our way to the car, we saw Europe’s largest chess set, watched a Segway tour go by, and Sam made a new friend: death (please do not worry, Sam isn’t dead).
We got in the car and drove to the place where they filmed the front of the house in The Sound of Music. To get there, we had to drive on a bike and horse path. It was not for cars. We realized this when an old lady looked at us suspiciously and a man on a horse signaled for us to turn around. We walked there instead. There was a nice little stream by our path, and it was DEEP & COLD.
There is a treehouse in the background. Can you find it?
At the house the gates were open, but we didn’t go in. Inside the house there is not a fancy ball room. The ballroom was made in a studio in LA. We didn’t go into the house either.
The front of the house
We found a kitty in the field, and Sam tried to catch it.
We then drove to the back of the house in the movie, another house in real life. I didn’t manage to take a picture because my camera broke and before I had time to fix it, the man who watches the parking lot came and told us that it was PRIVATE PROPERTY!!!
We saw beautiful views of the fort.
The mountains were also gorgeous.
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