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Pre-Prep Information
You will find your summer experience more rewarding if you do some reading and movie watching on your own, in advance. You can search the web or refer to any of the following background material:
Travel Guides
- Michelin Green Guides
- Fodor Travel Guides
- AAA tour guides & maps
Historical
- Fall of the House of Hapsburg
- Mayerling
- The Royal Recluse (Ludwig II)
- The Reluctant Empress
Movies/DVDs/Videos/Books
- Where Eagles Dare (old Clint Eastwood war movie which used Hohenwerfen fortress on location)
- The Sound of Music (*a MUST see— Oscar winning musical filmed on location in and around Salzburg, & the Grödig area…where you will be living!)*
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The Sound of Music
- The Salzburg Connection (interesting spy story, good read)
- The Von Trapp Family (book by the REAL Maria)
- Amadeus (*Highly Recommended* excellent film on Mozart’s life—filmed on location in Prague, an amazing movie!)
- The Mouse That Roared (Classic comedy, a great Peter Sellers movie)
- Mission Impossible I (partially filmed on location in Prague, with Tom Cruise)
- Blame it on the Bellboy (comedy.. filmed on location in Venice...with Dudley Moore)
- National Lampoon’s European Vacation (Classic Chevy Chase comedy….if you haven’t seen it you probably should….ridiculously funny!)