Halstatt

One of the stops we made was a village outside of Salzburg named Halstatt.  It's where they filmed the wedding scene from the movie.  It was a cute little village.  They were celebrating a harvest, so the church had harvest offerings on the altar.  The church was moldy and when it's rainy it gets worse, so I ducked in glanced and ran back out.  They had this little train that we rode on up to the village square.  I made Jer get a picture of it to give to Seth when we got home.

 

The Austrian chocolate isn't nearly as good as the Icelandic, German or Swiss, but they have a fun marketing campaign.  It's called Mozart Chocolate and it's everywhere.  I really enjoyed this little town.  It's beautiful and the people were kind.  I'm sure they get lots of tourists, but the tour guide pointed out that The Sound of Music wasn't released in Europe and most the people we met had never seen it before.  They must think we're crazy for touring all the sites then.