A few things I forgot to mention last time:Quote:
Originally Posted by travel-mum
When we were in Salzurg, Austria, we were looking for somewhere to stay, and a man in a bar recommended a friend of his who owns a B&B. He called up his friend, and the guy came and got us (two couples). It seemed like it was a holiday weekend, and the B&B was closed, but he had a two-bedroom apartment he could let us have, including breakfast at the B&B for about $25 Euros a night per person. It was a ground-floor apartment that included a back yard with a patio set, and even a fridge in the garage. When we had breakfast at the B&B the next morning, we noticed pictures of The Sound of Music cast on the walls. It seems that the woman who runs the B&B had a connection with The Sound of Music. Her mother was a maid of the Von Trapp family before they left during the war! Amazing! They even had pictures of the cast, who had a reunion at that very B&B, and they had a wall of autographs of people who came! We got to talk to the lady, who showed us pictures of her mother with the Von Trapp Family. We were actually in Salzburg to see all of The Sound of Music sights, so this was the icing on the cake!
THEN a couple of years later we were staying at a B&B in Stowe, Vermont with the same couple, and we got talking to the owners. The Von Trapp family now own a lodge in Stowe (but it's very expensive to stay). The owners of the B&B knew Rosemarie Von Trapp, and arranged for us to meet her on Sunday morning just outside the little white church, just before the service started. They said we would recognize her by her hiking boots. Sure enough, she was there and graciously answered the questions we had about her family. That was sooooooooooo cool!
