We came to Salzburg with our friend, Inge, so we could run through the mountains surrounding the city and sing out ‘the hills are alive…’
But the weather didn’t permit such activities.
But we found the next best thing. There was an exhibition on the Von Trapp family at a Salzburg museum which allowed us to simulate Julie Andrew singing her love of the Alps.
The museum had some displays on ‘The Myth of Sound of Music’. Hollywood used some creative license in the movie but the most interesting was that the Von Trapp family never really had to escape from Austria. They were invited to perform in the US in 1938 and got proper visas and everything and there they remained. But crossing over the Swiss border as shown in the movie is certainly more dramatic.
Poor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The people of his hometown have neglected him and made him stand out in the rain. I offered him my umbrella and in return he offered me an Austrian chocolate.
