Thursday, March 15, 2007

Academy Award-winning Salzburg

Here's a subject I just love to talk about: me, between the ages of 13 and 16. Ah, yes. Let's not dwell on that memory too long. I only mention it, because it was during this lovely era that my personal devotion to The Sound of Music reached it's height. Around the beginning of High School, I'm pretty sure I wanted to be Julie Andrews (circa 1965).
Seriously. Is it not one of the greatest movies of all time? And don't write a comment saying that Citizen Kane is a better piece of cinema because Orson Wells mumbling "Rosebud" just doesn't hold a candle to Christopher Plummer singing Edelweiss.
Ahem.
So anyway, I was in Salzburg and hadn't done anything cheesey for a while, so I went on a Sound of Music bus tour. Great time! We even went to the church where Maria and Captain Von Trapp got married! Sigh...


Mirabell Gardens: "So, a needle pulling thread..."





The Gazebo. You can't go inside anymore. Apparently, a while back, an 80-year-old visitor was attempting to re-enact the 16 Going On 17 dance and broke her hip on one of the benches...

Nothing says here come the tourists like...

3 comments:

Louis said...

hey mon, it appears we are following each other around again, i spent a few days in salz with some friends who live in a student dorm a few blocks behind yoho, it was a blast, most of them complain its a boring town but as always, its what you make of it. Im down in croatia for a few short days and its glorious to see the water again, i think im going to just sit on the beach for a few hours.

keep having fun mon, love the blogs

Louis

Anonymous said...

hahahaha......what a pook.
"catch the ball, monica...."
:)

Anonymous said...

our band in highschool did a tour of austria/germany/italy, and i still remember copying/posing next to the funny statues in maribell gardens . . . you can see two examples at the gates!
mary