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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 20:04:47 GMT -1
Day 1
Arrived in Salzburg around 9pm and due to the rain we decided to stay in the hotel and rest.
I love foreign television. There are times you watch things and just wonder what the fuck is going on. We watched a variety programme (the Austrian/Germans seem to find variety programmes highly amusing). There was a man in a studio with 22 ovens in front of him. Beyond the 22 ovens was a red carpet. They chatted a little while and then played Glen Fry’s The Heat is On whilst this man picked up the ovens and threw them onto the red carpet. He had a time limited and he only managed 21 ovens. Very sad so they went to the adverts. When they came back they had 22 more ovens for him. The story had a happy ending. He threw all 22 ovens in the time allowed and at the end they played La Bamba. If this had happened in Kris Akabussi’s time maybe Record Breakers wouldn’t have been cancelled.
Photos to follow....
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 20:14:41 GMT -1
Spent the day looking around Salzburg. It’s a beautiful chocolate box kind of town and the fact that we had to walk through a mountain to get to town only made it a little more magical. I can see why the Nazi party started in Austria. They’re fastidiously clean (in the public toilets they pay a woman to wipe the seat every time someone goes to the loo!) and the they appear to like a very ordered life where all the local wear local dress like a uniform. Plus I understand why Hitler was a vegetarian now, it was to get away from the amount of meat Austrian meat! It was the Harvest Festival ceremony at the cathedral and all the local dignitaries were out in force. They were hand out corn dolls and the bread of Christ (Christ must have been pissed) and I even went into a church and I didn’t burn. A woman and her horn of plenty!Walking around town with my Mum and Nan unleashed a nice bit of old fashioned racism from my Nan. My Nan was talking about all the Chinese tourists and my Mum corrected her and said they were Japanese. My Nan came out with the classic of “they all look the same to me” and later asked us why all the locals wore fancy dress. It’s best just to pretend you can’t hear them when they say things like that. It’s Christmas all year round in Salzburg. There is a permanent shop with 5 floors of Christmas goodies. I got a bit excited and spent £60 on decorations (about a tenner’s worth smashed on the way home, I blame Kev!!) I had “Loin of Lamp” for dinner. I was disappointed when they brought me a baby sheep to eat.
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Post by GUPTA on Sept 17, 2008 20:20:59 GMT -1
im intrigued as to what you expected the loin of lamp to be......??
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 20:27:14 GMT -1
Day 3 The day of dread has come. The Sound of Music Tour! A very British woman called Trudi in Austrian “fancy dress” was to be out tour guide. When the first words to leave her mouth were “Are you ready to sing?”, I leaned over to my mum and said “Kill me, kill me now please.” My Nan having a really good time as you can seeWe first visited the Von Trapp house which was actually quite beautiful, then we visited the gazebo where Lisel fell in love with the Nazi boy. Leopoldskron Palace - House used for the Von Trapp family homeThey then took us out to the Lake District. I just wish it had been sunny because the scenery was spectacular. Unfortunately there wasn’t any climbing of mountains. We stopped for strudel outside the church the Von Trapp’s got married. It is the law that you stop for strudel at every point in Austria or you will be sent to some form of camp. Lake WolfgangMe doing my best Heidi impressionThe tour ended in the Mirabell gardens where they filmed the 'Do a deer' scenes (strange folk these Austrian's doing Deers). After watching my mother run around the Pegasus fountain and running through the hedged arch whilst shouting ‘run Julie Andrews run’, I believe I have done my daughterly/grand-daughterly duties for at least the next 10 years. For all my complaining (and minus the singing) it was a good trip and the film buff in me was very interested in how locations are used in filming.
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 20:29:17 GMT -1
im intrigued as to what you expected the lion of lamp to be......?? Part of a dimmer switch maybe?
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Post by GUPTA on Sept 17, 2008 20:33:57 GMT -1
im intrigued as to what you expected the lion of lamp to be......?? Part of a dimmer switch maybe? or a light bite??
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 20:38:11 GMT -1
Part of a dimmer switch maybe? or a light bite?? To filament you up?
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Post by GUPTA on Sept 17, 2008 20:42:15 GMT -1
was it a shade underdone?
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 21:01:44 GMT -1
It was and I had to let it 'stand' for a while.
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Post by ArgyleChick on Sept 17, 2008 21:06:15 GMT -1
Laura, I am so with your mum on that one!! I went to Salzburg and danced round the fountain, up and down that tunnel, up and down the steps and the Nazi boy - he's called Ralph!!! I just Loooooooooooooooooove the Sound of Music!!! My party piece is the So Long Farewell song, with all the actions!!!
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Post by GUPTA on Sept 17, 2008 21:06:40 GMT -1
It was and I had to let it 'stand' for a while. watt kind of service is that??
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Post by ArgyleChick on Sept 17, 2008 21:07:26 GMT -1
Oh good grief, I really need to get out more don't I!!!
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 21:09:08 GMT -1
Lol I've got strange images of you dressing up as Gretel at home now Chick ;D ;D
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 21:10:20 GMT -1
It was and I had to let it 'stand' for a while. watt kind of service is that?? I know and they didn't take switch!
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Post by ArgyleChick on Sept 17, 2008 21:11:54 GMT -1
Ha Ha!!!! We play the SOM in the band that I play in and my conductor is trying to get me dressed up as a nun, well the way my love life is going I think I may join a convent!!! Then.......... just maybe I will meet my Captain Von Trapp... on 2nd thoughts - my mates are always telling me to avoid the matelots!! Now I think that you secretly enjoyed the whole SOM experience
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Post by ArgyleChick on Sept 17, 2008 21:13:14 GMT -1
Why on earth were you worried about the meat though Laura when you had all those chocolate shops etc... they are possibly the best places ever aren't they!
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Post by GUPTA on Sept 17, 2008 21:13:26 GMT -1
watt kind of service is that?? I know and they didn't take switch! i thought that was standard practice?
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 21:16:29 GMT -1
Ha Ha!!!! We play the SOM in the band that I play in and my conductor is trying to get me dressed up as a nun, well the way my love life is going I think I may join a convent!!! Then.......... just maybe I will meet my Captain Von Trapp... on 2nd thoughts - my mates are always telling me to avoid the matelots!! Now I think that you secretly enjoyed the whole SOM experience Would you want a man with that much baggage? Get thee to a nunnery, young baggage ;D Sorry thought I was back at Uni in Medievil Literature(Yes that's how you should spell it when lectures meant I had to be up at 6am in the morning . The tour was lovely it was just the mad menopausal women that disturbed me!!!
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 17, 2008 21:18:41 GMT -1
Why on earth were you worried about the meat though Laura when you had all those chocolate shops etc... they are possibly the best places ever aren't they! You can't have Ritter Sport for every meal though Em. Got to think of the waistline, especiall because I bought a nice frock in Mango while I was there. ;D
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Post by ArgyleChick on Sept 17, 2008 21:20:07 GMT -1
Ha Ha!!!! We play the SOM in the band that I play in and my conductor is trying to get me dressed up as a nun, well the way my love life is going I think I may join a convent!!! Then.......... just maybe I will meet my Captain Von Trapp... on 2nd thoughts - my mates are always telling me to avoid the matelots!! Now I think that you secretly enjoyed the whole SOM experience Would you want a man with that much baggage? Get thee to a nunnery, young baggage ;D Sorry thought I was back at Uni in Medievil Literature(Yes that's how you should spell it when lectures meant I had to be up at 6am in the morning . The tour was lovely it was just the mad menopausal women that disturbed me!!! Oh god no - but remember there's "this delightful little thing called boarding school"..... (oh no thats sad isn't it! Good old Baroness Schreider - or however you spell it!!) Looked it - one of those SOM sing-a-long-nights, but just on a bus!!!
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