The Sound of Music – Wednesday, June 23

Written by Eric

My sixth grade teacher, Ingrid Bergman, (not the famous actress) was a Sound of Music fanatic. Perhaps she ingrained that love in all her students and even though that has been quite a few years ago, I still love the movie. So as Kristen was planning our route back from Romania to London, she knew that if there was anyway possible, we should stop in Salzburg, where the outside scenes for the movie were filmed and where the actual Von Trapp family lived.

The unique part of our stop here is that we are staying in the actual house of the Von Trapp family. Yes, where Captain Von Trapp and Maria and their children lived. The house was abandoned by the Von Trapps in 1927, was seized by the Nazis shortly afterwards, was bought by a Catholic group after the Nazi regime fell, and then, two years ago, was bought by a family and opened as a bed and breakfast. And we get to stay here. How cool is that! Tomorrow we are going to go on a tour to see all the places in town where the movie was filmed.

(By the way, the oldest child of the Von Trapps was not Liesel as in the movie, but an older son, Ruppert. I guess Hollywood needed a love story in the movie and Liesel and her boyfriend Ralph made a better story!)

We learned lots of interesting Sound of Music trivia while we were here. Ask us about it. I found it all quite fascinating.