Lawyers Avi Schneebalg and Donatella Soria met while attending the session in the summer of 1982. Donatella reminisces: "We were both young lawyers, respectively in Brussels and Milan, eager to open ourselves to such an enriching experience at the Schloss. Avi and I sympathized immediately, became good friends and had many interesting discussions. But the timing was not right, in spite of the romantic and idyllic set! It was only six years later that Avi called me out of the blue…a few days before my visit to Brussels on business (talk of serendipity!). We married in July of 1989, near Lake Como in Northern Italy. The Salzburg Seminar has left an indelible imprint on both Avi and myself, a shared life in which we have both thrived professionally and personally and built up a happy family, thanks also to our great son Marco." Avi adds: "I was so lucky to meet Donatella at the Salzburg Seminar. She has illuminated my life, together with our beloved son Marco. Thanks Salzburg!" More than 30 years later, their son Marco travelled to Salzburg to see where his parents met, enjoying a Schloss tour and even discovering a chair with his mother's name acknowledging her donation to an earlier fundraising campaign.