My posts are completely out of order at this point. Here are the places I’ve visited in order, Reykjavik, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich and Interlaken.
Church from Sound of Music
The Beatles. Cadbury Chocolate. The Sound of Music. European imports that American women go crazy for. And American women in hordes descend upon Salzburg for The Sound of Music tour.
I too made this cultural pilgrimage. Back in college while visiting my friend Jeanna in London, she mentioned she had just came back from the Sound of Music tour, and I put it on my mental to-do list of places to visit.
Yet somehow the pinnacle of this city was dancing around a stripper pole at 3 am at a gay bar.
I spent day one sightseeing with my hostelmate, an Australian named Zara, who had also been at the second hostel I stayed at in Vienna. We then ran into Winnie, a
Pregaming
Canadian, who I had met at my first hostel in Vienna. Sabrina, a German, introduces herself to us. On our way to get beers at the hostel, we run into Alex from Florida, who I’ve now run into at Stockholm, Vienna and now Salzburg. while drinking, Will an Australian, introduces himself.
We close down the hostel bar and then another bar and are told the only bar open was Maxxs. Which incidentally turned out to be a gay bar. With a stripper pole. Back home I would have refused to have participated in a turn around the pole. But here? Here I take several turns. Here I know no one, so why not? Although should I start running low on Euros, I don’t think I’ve found my latest profession.
I tackle the Sound of Music tour the following morning. Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things. Hangovers with over animated tour operators telling awful jokes and enacting out scenes from Sound of Music? Almost killed my favorite musical forever.
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The hangover might be rough, but those stripper pole bruises will be with you for weeks.
I can bend in 25 positions. But I only work here to pay my tuition.
Unrelated, you should see the bruises I picked up from the BMW Museum.
Nothing can ruin The Sound of Music. Nothing.
Nothing can ruin The Sound of Music. Nothing.