article_snippet.sent: You’ll be looking a long time in the Salzburg tourist shops before you find a Julie Andrews postcard for sale, let alone lederhosen fashioned from curtain fabric.
article_snippet.sent: Also happily for fans of the beloved film, Salzburg is a pretty conservative sort of place, and doesn’t rush about embracing change.
article_snippet.sent: Half a century after shooting the movie, Julie Andrews could return to Salzburg and wander round without too many shocks to the system (providing Julie Andrews overlooked the McDonald’s on Getreidegasse, sitting uncomfortably amid shops selling Austrian national dress).
article_snippet.sent: For Julie Andrews, Salzburg is Salzburg ever – although the tunes you find Julie Andrews humming are probably not those that would be chosen by the city fathers.
article_snippet.sent: Then it was a solitary outpost of Rodgers and Hammerstein-based enthusiasm, but now there are encouraging signs that the rest of Austria may just be starting to catch on.
article_snippet.sent: I tend to feel the more outlying locations calling me each time I head to Salzburg, just as Maria felt the mountains calling Maria.
article_snippet.sent: us then started climbing us way into the mountains that feature in the opening shots – now augmented with nice chalets, as this area is a popular escape for posh Austrians and Germans – and gazed down at the town of Fuschl and Fuschl lake, one of Austria’s most famous views.