Friday, 20 Dec 2013 | Views [587]
Austria's Romantic Route runs along the Danube through terraced vineyards, connecting interesting looking medieval towns like beads on a necklace. This would be a wonderful route on a bicycle on a sunny day when the grapes are ripe. The Danube, ... Read more >
Thursday, 19 Dec 2013 | Views [506]
The Hapsburgs had a pretty good thing going for several hundred years. World War I put a very definite end to that but the grandeur of their reign lives on in and around Vienna. Vienna was a city worthy of an empire, still is, but today it ... Read more >
Tuesday, 17 Dec 2013 | Views [584]
Even a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day. The Glockenspiel Clock in Graz is five minutes slow, and is never right. That wouldn't happen in Germany! But we weren't in a hurry. We just wanted to see the carved wooden ... Read more >
Sunday, 15 Dec 2013 | Views [627]
Hotel rooms on the Austrian side were hard to come by on the weekend so we stayed at Hotel Big-Koch (no kidding) in Ainring on the German side of the border. It was only a short train ride from Salzburg on Saturday afternoon then a nice walk ... Read more >
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Sunday, 17 Nov 2013 | Views [521]
I fell in love with Germany while in the Army in the late 60s. It was the most fascinating place I had ever seen. Until I visited Austria, that is. And Switzerland surpassed even that. This must be what heaven looks like. ... Read more >
