Leavin'.... on a jet plane

[hotwine]

We're back! Too short a trip. Still consider St Vitas Cathedral on the grounds of Prague Castle to be a highlight. But in Vienna, we had tickets to a performance by the Salon Orchestra in the concert hall where Strauss performed.... incredible! Strauss & Mozart for an hour and a half with a Champagne break, performed by first class pros, with a ballet duo and an opera duo. The duration seemed more like 15 minutes. At Oberammergau, we attended this season's 6th performance of the Passion Play; hard to believe those folks were all amateurs and residents of the village! Magnificent! I had heard it would be very long, but it was only five hours - 2 1/2, then a three-hour break for supper, then another 2 1/2. Got back to the B&B about 11 PM. Well worth the trip. Left the B&B at 5 the next morning on the tour bus for the ride to the Munich airport. Rain every day, windy, temps in the 40's, with low clouds frequently obscuring the mountain peaks and drifting across Schloss Neuschwanstein, but still beautiful. We had D's two sisters with us and neither had ever been to Europe, so they really enjoyed it (as did we, some 35 years after visiting the Alps and its castles for the first time as newlyweds).

The only wine that we really enjoyed was the Champagne at the Vienna concert; that was the real stuff, although couldn't get close enough to the servers to see the label. All other sparklers we had on the trip were sekt - bummer. Only had a couple of glasses of reds and regretted not having beer instead - no idea of their names but both were entirely forgettable.

Wonderful trip! We're anxious to go again.

[This message has been edited by hotwine (edited 05-24-2010).]