Getting Started

OK, I know it's corny, but here we are outside the Mozart Birth House.

There IS something corny about Salzburg; yes, it's pretty, but it's like a Museum, and a not very well curated one at that. Most of the material in the birth house covers things he actually did in Vienna. Mozart is their cash cow, and they are milking him for all they are worth.

The other exhibition is better - this is the one in the house he lived for four years or so - and I did learn some things about his travels. He spent one third of his life travelling, and covered many thousands of kilometers. And his travels were so much more adventurous than ours; he once travelled through the mountains to Italy in the winter, saying that all they had at the inns was potatoes and broccoli. In our trip, the worst thing that's happened so far is that the Salzburg hotel wasn't where we thought it was - hardly the stuff of major drama!

Nevertheless, this is, as someone described it, an endeavour, and we begin it tomorrow morning.

This is Di - in the second Museum they read some of his letters written while travelling and he said what a lot of fun he was having; so that's a challenge for us, to have fun too. And he makes his letters so entertaining - I don't know if we'll be able to keep ours similarly fun and engaging. You'll see, as we stride out....