After touring the town of Friesach one day, we stopped at a little cafe for lunch.One of our friends told us we had to try Kärntner Käsenudeln – which are like raviolis filled with a unique cheese mixture and then sauteed...
Archive - July 2009
Today we headed to Klagenfurt to check out the Professional BeachVolleyball Grand Slam Tournament. It is a huge four day event at the beach on the Woerthersee Lake. We got to watch Canada get beat by the Czech Republic, and...
The castle Burg Hochosterwitz is considered the nicest castle in all of Austria, possible all of Europe for its uniqueness. As you can see from the pictures it is perched on top of a tall, skinny mountain over looking miles of...
The Austrian medieval city of Friesach holds a Mittlealter Spectaculum (Middle Ages Spectacular) every year on the last Saturday in July. The city is closed to cars, electricity shut off and set ablaze with torches and fire pits...
And make it drink out of a drinking fountain. This cow was slurping water out of the “drinking fountain” near the farmhouse we’re staying at in our souther Austria get away. Kind of a funny thing to...
The Belvedere Palace is famous for bringing some of the best artwork in the world to Vienna. We were excited to take the kids to see the palace and enjoy the paintings, but things didn’t quite go as planned…Since we...
Okay, so I am kind of behind on the posting, and I have a collection of random pics of the kids that I decided to dump into one post. Enjoy!Teddy on his potty. What more needs to be said? Elora trying on a hat sample Chris is...
We went for a really long walk around the city, just to see what was there. I am always surprised how close together everything is when you get off the train and just walk… pretty soon I might actually be able to find my...
There has actually been some pretty nice weather the last few weeks (in between the rainy days) and we have spent a lot of time at the zoo… rather than spending my time making tons of zoo posts, I just picked some of my...
The Heeresgeschichtlichtes Museum – try saying that ten times fast – or just one time fast for that matter, so we (and everyone else) just call it the Arsenal. This is the largest building built to hold a military...