St. Gilgen
Mondsee near St. Gilgen
June 26, 2005
For lunch I grabbed a apple strudel and then we headed out on the Sound of Music
Tour. We got a personal van and our tour guide was pretty good. He showed us the
castles that were used for the filming and then the lakes district, which was well
worth the trip in and of itself.
The highlight was St. Gilgen, the town that Mozart’s mother was born and grew up
in. It sits on Wolfgangsee (Lake) and I couldn’t help but wonder if this is where
Mozart got his name from.
We visited four or five lakes and stopped in two towns. In the last town and our
final stop, we got gelato and headed back to Salzburg on the autobahn.
St. Gilgen