Salzburg

pen4hire on February 6th, 2009

I have been pondering what places my husband and I have visited that were the most romantic.  There are so many. Santorini, Budapest, Florence and Salzburg, for instance. This little cherub in the Mirabell Palace in Salzburg seems to have a headache as he points the way out the door.  Mirabell was built in 1606 [...]

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pen4hire on January 19th, 2009

Book: Mozart, A Cultural Biography by Robert Gutman Destination: Salzburg Don’t take the Sound of Music tour.  Don’t tell an Austrian how much you like the Sound of Music. For heavens’ sake, don’t walk down the Getreidegasse humming “Eidelweiss” from The Sound of Music. I had been warned before I went to Salzburg that Austrians [...]

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