We visited the amazing castle of Hochosterwitz last year (pictures of the outside of Hochosterwitz here) and really enjoyed it. Since it was in the neighborhood of Friesach, we decided to let the kids show Grandma around. The...
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Last year we went to the Friesach Medieval Festival and the Beach Volleyball tournament. We had so much fun we did it again this year. Here are the kids watching the Brazilian women team beat up on the Americans. We went to a...
We have wanted to see the big cemetary in Vienna for a long time, so we decided to take mom over to visit it. There is a big church in the middle of the cemetary with a beautiful brightly lit inside. We didn’t take many...
Some of Chris’ classes were in the Palais Liechtenstein – must be nice to go to school in a palace. The palace is also home to an art museum, and Chris has been wanting to go for awhile. There is also a really awesome...
The first place Elora said she wanted to show Grandma was the “Knight Museum” so we headed over to the Neuburg to see the collection of musical instruments and the armory. They have new audio guides that show pics of...
We have never been to the National Library in Vienna, and I read it is amazing, so off we went! It is kind of expensive considering you just see one room, but wow was it a beautiful place.It was completed in 1730. There are...
My mom has come to Vienna for a couple weeks and we started our visit by a day at the Schonbrunn. Elora insisted that the first thing we needed to show Grandma was the maze. So we bought my mom the ticket that would allow her to...
The Armory (military history museum) had its annual medieval festival where they shoot off all the cannons and have a great market. We headed over a couple weeks ago to check out the market, and the kids got to wear their knight...
The day before we flew back home we went to Windsor Castle. The queen still lives here part of the year. The castle itself is pretty huge, and unfortunately none of the rooms/churches we visited inside the grounds allowed...
On to day two of the London tour! We decided to go to the Tower of London because Elora really really really wanted to see the crown jewels. I am not kidding, she was so excited. First a little story about Elora before we came to...