H:
We stayed only one night in Salzburg, but it was fun! S loved the Alps - she had never seen mountains that big before... They are amazing, even when you've seen them before.
We stayed in Hotel Wolf-Dietrich, in the 'romantic suite'. The hotel has two types of these suites: one based on Mozart's 'Magic Flute' and the other based on Mozart's 'Papagai' (I can't figure out which opera that's supposed to be though.) I'll post pictures of the room - it had a free-standing tub (it looked like cast iron but was really plastic), lots of lighting effects, a fake tree, and a giant wooden parrot at the foot of the bed. Romantic!
The hotel also had a channel that continuously looped the movie 'The Sound of Music'. 24-7! All Gretel, all the time! S had never seen the whole thing, and so we watched it.
Of course, the next day, we did the four-hour tour. We have a picture of us in front of the 'I am 16, going on 17' gazebo, shots of the back of the house used in the movie, etc. And, the bus trip was fun, as they played most of the songs from the movie!
You gotta do it!

Anyway, pics will come up this weekend!

C
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 6/30/2006 05:02:00 PM