We woke up Monday morning so excited for the Sound of Music Tour we quickly got ready, headed downstairs, grabbed breakfast and waited for the tour to pick us up.
When we got on the bus there was enough room for both Liz & I to have window seats, which was great. We had a fantastic tour guide who was from Seattle and absolutely loved the Sound of Music. She took us on a four hour tour all through Salzburg and it’s countryside to show us where everything was filmed. She also played the movie soundtrack on the bus the entire time and highly encouraged everyone to sing along. Liz didn’t but I did and our tour guide was very impressed that I knew all of the words to all of the songs…
At the lake and palace that was used for the VonTrapp’s backyard. The actual house was in a totally different part of Salzburg
In front of the gazebo! Unfortunately the city keeps it locked now because so many people have fallen and hurt themselves while dancing around it so I wasn’t able to go inside and play Liesl.
The Abby where Maria lived!
The VonTrapp House! It’s used as dorms now for a conservatory so we weren’t able to stop and take pictures.
Liz & I in the village just outside of Salzburg where the wedding church is!
The wedding church! Unlike in the movie it is not actually connected to the Abby, it’s really about a 30 minute drive outside of Salzburg.
Inside the church, near the alter.
In the movie the made the church seem as big as Westminster Abby but actually it was really small, but still really beautiful.
Even though I had my little German hat for the tour I was a little sad that I didn’t have a dirndl to wear. A dirndl is a traditional German dress that people still wear today, especially where we’re staying in the countryside. I’ve wanted to get one ever since we’ve gotten here but I’d held off since they can be a little expensive. I asked our tour guide if she knew of a good place where I could buy one because she seemed like the kind of lady who would know a good, inexpensive place to buy one and she was. She gave us directions to this small shop in Salzburg (that happened to be across the street from one of the Sound of Music locations so Liz & I were planning to go there anyways) that sold them for much cheaper than all of the other stores Liz & I had been looking in.
At the Horse Bath which happened to be in front of the dirndl shop.
We headed there after the tour and after trying a few on a found a beautiful blue one that was on sale that shortly became mine! I was so excited that I wore it out of the store!!
Me in my new dirndl!
After that we headed to the oldest part of the city to visit St. Peter’s Cathedral, which was beautiful. Once we got there we realized that we were right by the lift that would take us up to the old Hohensalzburg Fortress.
The beautiful dome in St. Peter’s
One of the pictures we took of the fortress while on the Sound of Music tour.
Ever since we go to Salzburg Liz & I had wanted to go up and explore the fortress so we were really excited to finally go up there. It was really cool once we got up and we had great views of the city. We walked all through the fortress and even found some cannons to play with.
Liz decided to ditch the Sound of Music themed day and pretend she was in Pirates of the Caribbean.
While walking through the fortress we kept seeing these really tall towers that we really wanted to climb and luckily for us there happened to be a tour of the fortress that included climbing the tallest tower!!
Our view of the city from on top of the tower.
Liz at the top of the world!
After that we grabbed dinner and then headed over to Café Mozart to try Mozart Cake. Liz had read about it online and apparently it’s one of the things that you have to eat when you visit Salzburg (which happens to be the birthplace of Mozart, we visited his house earlier in the day). However it turned out that this cake had some weird green filling in it and Liz had had the filling in a candy she had the day before and hadn’t like it so in the end we opted to just have chocolate cake but it was delicious chocolate cake!
On our way to Café Mozart we came across the fountain Maria sang “I have Confidence” in front of so naturally we had to stop for a picture.
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