Emily's Dream: The Sound of Music Tour

Anyone who knows my friend Emily Duszynski will tell you she is a little bit obsessed with the movie "The Sound of Music." That may sound strange, since the movie was made more than 20 years before she was born, but it was for this precise reason that we recently found ourselves on a bus with a giant picture of Julie Andrews on the back in the midst of Salzburg, Austria, with a bunch of other people not there for the scenery or Mozart or the food or....well you get the idea.

The Sound of Music won the Oscar for best film in 1965. Directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, the film features the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein (Edelweiss, My Favorite Things, Do-re-Mi, etc.) originally created for Broadway (Confession time: I may actual be one of these "Sound of Music" people. A few years ago I was in New York and went to see a revival of it on stage with Richard Chamberlain as Captain von Trapp.)

The play and the movie comes from the book "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" an autobiography by Maria von Trapp.

Here are some photos from the tour, which costs 37 Euro and was actually very enjoyable, even if you aren't a huge "The Sound of Music" fan. The tour lasts roughly 3.5 hours and takes you to some truly beautiful places. Also, our tour guide had a great sense of humor about his job and the film in general, which made some of the men dragged by their wives feel a bit more comfortable!