On Monday morning we said goodbye to Troy in Vienna at 4AM. We then went back to bed and slept a little longer, then got on our train to Salzburg, birthplace of Mozart. Actually, we've been on a bit of a Mozart pilgrimage on our European odyssey. Mozart was very successful in Prague, where Don Giovanni debuted and the Marriage of Figaro was very successful. We all know about Mozart in Vienna (Troy and Stefan went to one of Mozart's apartments in Vienna while Bernie was birding), and Salzburg is all about Mozart. In Salzburg, we went to see the Magic Flute performed by marionettes and then to see Mozart piano concertos in the Mirabel palace the very next night! The Belorussian pianist performed both concertos from memory.
Oh, we forgot to mention that Troy and Stefan went to the catacombs under the Stephansdom in Vienna where they saw piles upon piles of black-death infested bones and the important organs of the Habsburgs
Salzburg was filled buckets of 45 degree (F) rain, and we haven't seen the sun since we left Vienna.
Never to fear, tomorrow evening we travel to Amsterdam where we will leave for sunny Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday morning. I don't think we have mentioned it yet, but one of the primary reasons we are flying to South Africa is so that we can drive to Namibia to visit Stefan's great aunt Dorle who lives in Tsumeb.
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Love the video...though it might be a little bit more entertaining if Bernie could show a tad more enthusiasm while being videotaped.
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