It had been I who had selected the time to visit Mondsee. We left Toronto on the April 25, and, according to my memory, spring should have, by now, established itself securely. The wild flowers should be blooming everywhere, and the season of tourists being everywhere should not yet have arrived.

We landed in Vienna and the skies were blue and the sun was shining brightly. Clearly, I had chosen well! We boarded our flight to Salzburg, but quickly, we lost sight of the ground beneath us. The clouds, pretty as they looked from up ... (more)