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Returned home to lots of love and joy from the kids. All three children are back together again and delighted with each other's company. The girls made a very special banner for our arrival
Leaving Austria and the Alps as we head to Munich for the airport
Lucius's face shows the evidence of both parents gelati
The gardens where they filmed the last part (and most) of 'Do Re Mi' in The Sound Of Music! Wesley has started using the future indicative passive tense about my Sound Of Music references ⛲🎶
Creepy child outside the ice-cream store in Salzburg.
So I'm an idiot who only realised that the Sound of Music was filmed in Salzburg when I decided to Google it while driving through Austria. There were literal squeals of delight when I found out we where heading straight there. This also meant an obligatory road stop on the way to see the house where the Sound of Music front scenes were filmed (the garden scenes were somewhere else). The house is now a music school and I could hear beautiful violin solos from the gates. The house overlooks a field and the mountains and is on a tree lined road. The urge to sing the 'I have confidence' song while skipping up the lane was resisted (barely).Read more
Afternoon drinks and strudel on the edge of Buda Castle overlooking Parliament. We were holding hands and Lucius insisted on joining us
Waiting, waiting for the Metro then the joy when it finally arrives. On this occasion we are waiting for the Budapest metro to take us to the castles and gardens
Relaxing dinner in Bratislava on a main thoroughfare. Busy people watching and laughing.
Baroque garden at the Bratislava Castle and Lucius is busy licking his hands (for no discernable reason)
It was. All newly planted too as up until recently is was a large excavation site. When the archaeologists had finished, the site was filled in and the garden created.
Lovely ... big welcome back home xx