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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Mr. Presley, you have been noticeably silent regarding your overseas trip. I can only hope that you, or anyone in your family, were not "overexpecting". My trip to Salzburg, and only to Salzburg save whatever scenery I noted from the train rides to and from Munich, was the first of the dozen or thereabouts overseas trips that I've made in this life that I can heartily report "I enjoyed" and was glad I went. This was likely because the only agenda I had was to attend the three concerts for which I had ordered tickets. Everything else was "catch as catch can". I did take the schmaltzy "Sound of Music" bus tour (pity anyone buying those busses after the tour company is done with them). Best part of the tour was how the guide explained all the stuff in the movie plot that 'simply didn't add up', i.e. hike over the mountains into Switzerland? that would be hike into Germany!!!! But I met wonderful people; a college professor from Vienna who came to town just for the concert and we had wines together afterwards, and a gal my age who was born there and had lived through the WWII bombings (the railroads made it a strategic target). She says she is claustrophobic to this day from time spent in tunnels that were bomb shelters. On Sunday, she took me into the mountains (the aerial views opening the movie) and to a five star hotel, Schloss Fuschl, where she had married and had returned for many of her anniversaries. She had not been there since she was widowed two years ago, and I felt so honored she chose to ask me. The wines and appetizers (EU73) were as spectacular as was the view 1000ft (300m) atop Lake Fuschl. Finally, from this article appearing yesterday in The Times, be sure to note the photo of Barenboim and Domingo standing on stage together. I was there for that performance and seated with the professor from Vienna: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/arts/music/what-makes-the-vienna-philharmonic-so-distinctive.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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