For me, this was a very personal trip. I went to Mondsee to see, for the first time in nearly 60 years, the place where, right after WW II my mother and we, her five sons had lived. It had been a very difficult time, although the beauty of the place and the friendliness of the people living there had really captured our hearts. Mondsee, ever after, had seemed to all of us a place, where despite our very recent arrival, we really belonged. During the approximately five years that we lived in Mondsee, we had stayed in three different ... (more)