We left the ice caves and headed back to our hotel and for a rest. We needed to watch the Sound of Music before we went on the tour the next day! I know, I know, not the coolest thing we've done but I feel confident that at the very least we'll be the coolest people on the bus!! We ended up taking a break in the 3 hour extravaganza that is the SOM, and went to a local Austrian restaurant in Eugendorf. It was fantastic. One of the things about eating out in a foreign language is you can't really ask for more veggies etc. I swear we're all going to come down with scurvy. Often Bruce just asks the waitress to recommend the restaurant's famous dish. A little risky but usually worth it! Bruce and I shared Spatzle which is a traditional Austrian/German cheese noodle dish. Their version of Mac & Cheese. Heavy to say the least but oh so good. Then we had their signature dish. It was amazing Zander (which we now know to be Pike, maybe Perch, it's a P fish)with Chantrels and tons on veggies. It was one of the best meals I've had on the trip, and that's saying something!! The girls have Vienna Chicken which the waitress assured us was the chicken version of wiener schnitzel. Well not quite, it was breaded but was bones in. A month ago that would have been a disaster, we would have had to cut it for them... They didn't even bat and eye! Now back to the hotel to finish the movie and have an early night!
The tour was amazing! They really do it up right. I enjoy all the tours because they give you an insight into the area that is impossible to get otherwise. Most Austrians and Germans have never even heard of the movie. There was a German version done not long before the Hollywood version called the Singing Von Trapps (something like that) and it was so long ago...
They take you to all the hot spots and give a little behind the scenes trivia. I gotta say sitting on a bus for a few hours as we travelled into the lakes region was welcomed by all the Fairley's after our exhausting day yesterday!
Our plan was then to spend our last afternoon and evening in Salzburg.
You'd think that sitting on a bus pretty much all morning would have given us the rest we needed, apparently not! The girls were exhausted. I must say I wasn't a bundle of energy myself! You must persevere though. We saw the town with new, Sound of Music eyes! They filmed all over Salzburg, especially the Do a Deer song. There was so much whining that in the name of preserving our sanity we decided to bite the bullet and take a horse drawn carriage ride!
The girls took turns "driving" and our host was this fascinating man who was developemently challenged and had clearly found the perfect profession. He shared these details about the town that you would never find out otherwise and he absolutely loved what he was doing. It was a joy to see.
With the girls somewhat revived we headed off to the biggest beer hall in Salzburg (a must-see as far as Bruce was concerned) where we had the greasiest selection of meats, not a veggie in sight. The girls inadvertantly tried squid. That was quite funny! Then we headed back to the hotel.
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