Day 189 - The hills are alive .....

Vienna to Salzburg - Hotel Garni Evido

Back on the train again, this time to Salzburg - birthplace of Mozart, and also where the "The Sound of Music" was filmed. The town was quite pretty, with many Mozart related sights. However neither of us are into classical music or have seen "Amadeus", so "The Sound of Music" related attractions were the order of the day.

First stop in our mini Sound of Music tour was Hellbrun Castle. The tourist map we'd been given implied it wasn't far from town - but after walking around Salzburg Castle and then heading in what we thought was the right direction, we worked out we still had about 4km to go - those tourist maps have a bad habit of not being to scale! So we hopped on a bus and eventually saw the gazebo from the movie (which was a lot smaller than expected), as well as some very nice gardens in the castle grounds.

We then went to find Leopoldskron Castle (the house on the lake from the film) only to find that it was a private conference centre and visitors weren't allowed - a waste of time. Next were the beautiful Mirabell Gardens where they sang "Do Re Me". Although M has never seen the film (and doesn't want to), he did kind of recognise the song based on K's singing (if that's what you could call it).