If you don't own the music or the movie, go out and buy either. We started out early to take the Sound of Music tour left at 0930. It is a four hour tour that takes you to all of the different locations where the movie was shot.
Our guide Sharon was born in Israel where she lived for ten years and then London for twenty years She then came to Austria where she fell in love with the mountains and the lakes. She was most charming with a great sense of humour and in depth knowledge of the history of the Von Trapp family. She admits seeing the movie more than eight times. Some on the packed bus had seen the movie more than eight times.
The tour took us out to the Lake District to Mondsee where the church is In which the couple was married. The mountains around lake Fuschi and lake Wolfgang are where In the opening shots of the movie took place. Sharon told us about the real Von Trapp family and the difference between their life and the movie's. When they left Salzberg there were the seven children from his first marriage and two from his marriage to Maria. She was also pregnant at the time they left Austria. Making the escape a true challenge. Eventually, they ended up living in Stowe, Vermont.
During the tour music is played from the original movie. It seems that 350,000 people come a year to do this tour. The tour is in English since the movie only played here for two weeks 50 years ago and was never on television. The Austrians and Germans know little about it. The story was of a real musical family unwilling to sing for Hitler. To avoid repercussions, they packed whatever they could carry and took the train to Italy. A grand story of an Austrian family.
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