Sound of Music Pilgrimage in Salzburg

 Calling all Sound of Music lovers! This post is for you. Hopefully you'll still like the post even if you're not as into it as I am, because it still shows you more of the beauty and wonder that is Salzburg. Plus you get to see me recreate iconic scenes--normally I may be embarrassed to do such a thing with people around, but there were plenty of others doing the same thing ha!

^^the back of the house from the movie. the front scenes are a different house^^

There are lots of "Sound of Music tours" available in Salzburg including a bike tour which I kind of regret not doing. So we already had a rental car, so we decided to see all the sites on our own. (The tours were around $45 a person so x2 would be $90! The majority these places are free entry so I am glad we opted to spend that money on our Mozart concert in the castle instead. Just a tip for anyone thinking of making the pilgrimage as well ;)

"What will this day be like? I wonder."

"What will my future bring? I wonder."

Julie Andrews must have been standing on a stool or something because it was too high to get a splash like her!

"Dear Rolf, stop. Don't stop!"

"I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don't feel so bad."

 


"Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do"


I sure loved these gardens where so much of Do Re Mi is filmed.

Let's throw it waaaay back when my dad recreated it on his and my mom's trip to Salzburg 26 years ago. Ha! I found this picture after we got back and love to see that we both are recreating it. 

I looooooved the Nunnberg Abbey. It was so beautiful, and just steps away from our apartment. So, after this movie, the abbey has since removed the bell because they got sick of all the tourists ringing it!

So, the two places we didn't go were inside the ampitheater they perform in, because it's not open to the public, and the church where the wedding was filmed, because we ran out of time. Here is the exterior of the theater. 

And while we didn't see the church where the movie wedding was, we did go inside the chapel at the Nunnberg Abbey, which is where the real Maria and Captain VonTrapp were married. It was lovely. 

I do wish I had a bike to ride down the lane of trees!

So there you go! Did you enjoy it as much as I did?? I'll admit, the night before we went and saw all these places, we watched the movie on the laptop, and it sure made seeing all the stuff even more fun since it was fresh in our minds. It sure was magical. Once again, Victor, thank you for indulging me and taking all these pics. What a good sport. 

Magical Salzburg

It was a life dream of mine to visit the city of Salzburg, Austria, and it was everything I thought it would be. Such a beautiful, enchanting city. Even if it weren't the setting of the greatest movie ever The Sound of Music, it would still be one of my favorite cities I have ever been to. Enchanting is the word that keeps coming to mind. 

I found an awesome apartment to stay in through AirBnb and it was fantastic. It was at the base of the castle--it used to house the monks that took care of the castle grounds in the 1400s. We arrived to the apartment on Sunday as all the church bells in the city were ringing. It was seriously so magical. This was the view from the living room!

Here is Victor walking back to the apartment--it's the light green building. 

And then after were dropped off our stuff and were walking around the square, there was a free organ concert taking place in the church seen from our living room. So beautiful. Salzburg does Sundays right.

Salzburg is also the birthplace and home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, so that was special too. 

 ^^this statue freaked us out everytime we walked by it!^^

 Our last night in Salzburg, we ate dinner at this gorgeous beer garden before we headed up to the huge castle for am incredible evening of chamber music playing Mozart and other greats like Dvorak and Strauss. It was so so wonderful.

Salzburg, I love you! Victor, I love you! I am so grateful for this wonderful trip with you. You are my favorite, and being in Salzburg with you was magical.