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The Next 'Burg'

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August 20th 2007
There seem to be a lot of ‘Burgs’ in Germany - and this one you would definitely have heard of; it is the town where Mozart was born, and where they filmed scenes from the ‘Sound of Music’. It’s Salzburg! That was our destination today, but first we had to get there. This was pretty straight forward, considering it wasn’t too big a drive from Innsbruck. We disembarked from the bus, t ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more