Innsbruck, Austria

We stopped by Innsbruck on the way home. It is a wonderous city in the Alps where the Winter Olympics took place several years ago. Very Cool...Here we had 2 shrimp dishes and gelato galore...when you order a scoop, they will combine 5 flavors per scoop. So here we go...tiramasu, caremel, strawberry, lemon, chocolate...YUM!!!!

Dinner anyone??

Interesting dinner I had...An Italian dish that Bruno ordered for me...I was feeling adventurous. Veal with a Tuna sauce. The curled apparatus in the middle is mango.

The Wide-Eyed Tourists

All over the countryside did we go on our very touristy tour. We stopped at Leopoldskron Palace, where the water sceens were filmed. Then onto the Gazebo where Lisel danced with Roff. Varous other sights and then to the village of Mondsee, Austria, where the wedding sceens were filmed. Also we discoved a fabulous grilled chicken sandwich in Mondsee. After 4 hours, we were ready to say...So long, Farewell, Aufwiedersehen, Goodbye. Sidenote: Mozart was born in Salzburg...not quite as interesting as the sound of music...

Do-Re-Mi

The movie was filmed all over Salzburg. Of course, we had to be American tourist and take "The Sound of Music Tour". Yes...4 hours of our lives, visiting sights where the movie was filmed. see the Mirabell Gardens, where much of Do-Re-Mi was filmed.

The Hills are Alive...Villa Trapp

On to Salzburg, Austria... So you proabaly know that I love "The Sound of Music" movie. My sweet Bruno booked us to stay at The Villa Trapp...The REAL home of the Von Trapp Family. We stayed in Maria and Georg's suite. So neat...the history was fabulous. It's now a bed and breakfast. Austria was owned by Italy when Hitler requested Captain von Trapp to command his Navy. The captain refused. The family would have been killed, except for they were considered Italian. The family dressed as they were going hiking and secretly took the train to Italy. (The train station is right behind the house.) Two days later, Italy turned over Austria to Hitler. They got several singing gigs in the USA. When they arrived in the US, they had $4 between the 12 of them. Amazing, huh?

Road trip!!!

Okay...so another road trip for Kris and Bruno. We took a long weekend to travel to Austria. First stop...Schwanngau, Germany, where a extravagant Bavarian King built an excessively expensive castle. The royal family originally lived in a beautifully modist castle. (photo 1.)

But then the king died and his son took the Throne. (There were 2 sons and 1 was declaired mentally insane.) So Ludwig was the new king. He didn't like the small castle and began building a new castle, Neuschwanstein. This castle is huge, it took 14 carpenters 4 years to complete his bedroom...excessive. Here's a small part of it... picture 2.

So the country was going into debt over this castle. (I think King Ludwig probably had a personality disorder and didn't play well with others.) The powers that be informed the King that he was unfit to be king and declaired him insane. A few hours later, they found the King and his Doctor dead in a lake under mysterious circumstances. The Castle was unfinished and Six weeks later was opened as a museum...Conspiracy???

We had a fun time and ate Bavarian Foods for dinner.