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All about the Von Trapps

Today we woke up to sunny skies and took advantage!!

We walked all around the old town again this morning, a new take in the warm sun.

We stopped in a few old churches. Most notably, we took in an organ concert at the Cathedral of Salzburg. We stopped by the oldest bakery in Salzburg and of course tried the bread. David could not finish his bread, so he had “pocket bread” for the rest of the day.

Here is the church we went to for the concert, by far the most beautiful church we have seen so far, lots of small details. Also, Mozart was the lead organ player here for a handful of years.

They had 5 organs, she played 4 of them during the concert.

Then for the second part of the day we went on a Sound of Music tour. We visited many sites where scenes were shot and our tour guide gave us alot of the “actual facts”. Just little details that got changed for Hollywood. Was definitely a good tour.

We saw the concert hall
The fountain that Julie Andrews is seen sticking her hand in, it’s really tall, she was on a box.
They used two houses to create the house for the movie, since the real house was sold to the monastery when they fled to the US and it is still owned by the Monastery today, so we don’t have access to it.
No explanation needed
This is the church the nuns were singing in during the opening scene
And this is the church from the wedding
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2 responses to “All about the Von Trapps”

  1. rebecca b Avatar
    rebecca b
    1. That bread is huge!
    2. That church IS stunning and the one photo captures the kaleidoscope effect beautifully!
    3. This area or castles wasn’t on any bucket list I have — so thank you for writing about the history of it all… between your blog and Laura’s instagram cruise journey, I’m learning a lot 😉 Although, I’d like to see the SOM places…
    4. Glad the food is better!!😂
    5. Lastly, I’m convinced Jr grew 1.5 – 2 inches on this trip as he is now taller than you!

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    1. Heather Binder Avatar
      Heather Binder

      1. The bread was huge. It was really good too, got it freshly made. Only able to eat less than half of it though…even with us all eating it.
      2. It really was the most beautiful one we’ve seen so far
      3. Absolutely, it serves as a good journal for us, but also can hopefully be helpful. 😊
      4. Food is still pretty German…we are just getting used to it/ gave up and been eating Italian, tacos…
      5. He keeps saying he is taller than me, we have not gone back to back to see if he is or not…I would bet he is at least as tall as me…he has definitely grown.

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