Wishes do sometimes come true: I had wanted snow for our Munich trip and boy did we have snow. Snow fall was recorded as the most abundant for twenty four years. By Sunday morning there was about two foot of snow and that is without exaggeration. Our hosts were amazed and Friederike had never experienced anything like it.
We arrived last Tuesday evening, delayed by a couple of hours, due to weather conditions in Geneva. It was lovely to see Vic, Friederike and Thersa and as usual they had arranged some great things for us to do. Because childen are so unpredictsble and Theresa was a little unwell we wern't all able to do everything planned. Despite mother and daughter being unable to join us the most memorable of days was the one we spent in Salzberg, Vic Steve and I went by train and it was well worth the three hour train journey. It was bitterly cold, but it was such a beautifull city. As it was Mozarts anniversary everything Mozart prevailed. We visited Mozart's birth place and early childhood home. Later in the afternoon we travelled the venichula railway up to the fortress. Six hours wasn't enough time to see all that Salzberg had to offer, I hope that we may return for another visit,
perhaps during a spring or summer time. I'd like to do the 'sound of music' tour, see the Eidelweiss on the mountains where Julie Andrews taught the 'Von Trapp children to sing Doh ray me, the fountains, the abbey from where the family escaped over the mountains into Switzerland from the Nazis.(sorry reader if you are cringing)!
Away from the memories of a 1964 movie, the rest of the holiday was equally enjoyable. Time spent with our friends, plenty of hot chocolate and cake, playing in the snow with an excited child,a trip to Ikea. A chinese meal out was quite an experience, lovely food, thank goodness for our hosts linguistic skills, ordering the food in German a difficult enough task and doubly so because I had left my glasses behind!
Holiday over and back home, Steve has to set the alarm and return back to the office tomorrow, I'm lucky enough to have another weeks holiday, so I'm looking forward to a lie in tomorrow....
We arrived back home this afternoon,relaxed