We have spent the last 3 days in Vienna, and what an amazing time we have had. This place is brilliant. It has the elegance of Paris, and is chock full of the classical music culture. Mozart and Strauss are lauded everywhere you go and the city is simply buzzing with concerts and musicians. We went to see 2 concerts while we were here, one with a large orchestra all dressed in white wigs and 17th century costumes; the other a small chamber orchestra with dancer...

OK, so we may be daggy, but today we had a wonderful day on the Sound of Music! tour in Salzburg, and it wasn't nearly as cheesy as it sounds. OK, so it was a bit cheesy, but not as bad as we thought it was going to be. We drove around Salzburg and the Austrian countryside seeing some of the sites that were used for the film and hearing stories about the production that actually were very interesting. For example, the real Maria Von Trapp was so upset with the f...

We left Munich with a heavy heart today. What a fantastic city! A short 3 hours drive later and we were in the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Salzburg, Austria. And boy, are they Mozart crazy! (Of course this may be due to the craploads of money they make out of selling every sort of Mozart souvenir imaginable!) Salzburg is a very quaint city, with narrow, cobblestoned alleyways lined with shops and awesome signs above their shops that are unlike any ot...