You know that last scene in the Sound of Music where the family Von Trapp is hiking over the Alps to make their escape from Salzburg? We spent a week in those very mountains. Of course, the real Von Trapps never did any such thing to escape the Nazis, but caught a train out of Austria, and the mountains the movie shows were actually IN Germany (and if you go over the mountains from Salzburg you end up in Bertchestgaden, which was one of Hitler's favorite places. . . ) ANYwho, we had an absolutely wonderful week living in the fog and rain, I think we saw the sun for a grand total of two hours the entire week. Staying at the (historic) Hinterbrand lodge was both fun and a little eerie. After all, who doesn't want to stay in a place once visited by Hitler?
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