Germany & Austria


Left England and flew to Munich Germany. 


Stopped at this incredible bakery. 
Hedgehog chocolates. 


All chocolates or cake pops. 


Old Munich. 
 Statues were restored after the city was bombed in WWII


The Marienplatz, or St. Mary's square, has been 
the main square since 1158


With the famous Glockenspiel Clock


The famous MayPole in Vitualienmarkt, 
the market at the Square


The next day we traveled by train to see
 the Dachau Concentration camp.


What a horrible, evil thing.  
The actual door that people from 34 nations walked through


In 1933 the Nazis established their first concentration camp 
outside the town of Dachua, 18 Km from Munich. 

This was the role model for all the other camps. 

Elwood in front of one of the barracks



the main hall


The trench and barb wired fence around all of the grounds


 Thankfully, it was liberated by the USA in April 1945.  

The door is open now.
Thank God


The Jewish Memorial on the site



Back in Munich we got some wonderful 
German baking before we headed to Austria


the beautiful city of Salzburg




both directions up the Salzach River


I love a city with bridges.  



We met up with the Team from Arizona.  

The Salzburg Cathedral


Beautiful, as are all the cathedrals in Europe



And of course, the Sound of Music was filmed here. 


Fortress Hohensalzburg


The front of the Sound of Music house & lake


Schloss Leopoldskron 


The snow covered Alps in the background


The Gazebo


Overlooking Lake



So quaint


Doe a deer a female deer.....


The wisteria in the Mirabell Garden


Across the river is the birthplace &
 childhood home of Mozart



Attending Sunday morning service in the Cathedral.


When we came out of church,
A little festival was going on


With an Austrian Band


A look from the Fortress over the city


Conor & Elwood with the cannon


The Marionettes were amazing, a work of art. 


St Peter's Cemetary


Salzburg is the city of Spirals


Peggy, Connor & us on our way to the convent.



We found it. 
The Nonnberg Convent where Maria Van Trapp was a novice.



In the Abbey


And in their chapel





The yellow house was another used in the Sound of Music


Randomly meeting some locals



And then on to Vienna ~ 
a much bigger city


The cathedral


Many buildings have statues on the roof


The statue of Mozart



And the Vienna Opera House,
we are ready



So opulant


Amazing to think how many incredible musicians
 have performed here. 



It was too bad we couldn't stay for the evening concert.  
But I loved being it the building.

We left by train to Malenovice, Czech Republic

The fields reminded us of Saskatchewan. 













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