In front of the Rathaus all December long there is a Christmas market, after Christmas, they put a huge ice skating rink in the front for 2 months. So we took Elora to go skating for the first time.The Rathaus is too big for our...
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Today we had to go to the post office to pick up a package, and then decided to go to the grocery store while we were out. So, to get to the post office, we have to walk about a kilometer and take a streetcar and then walk some...
So, when fairy tales end in German, they don’t say, “And they lived happily ever after”. They say, “And if they are not dead, they are still out there somewhere”. Which maybe explains a whole host of...
Okay, I am not actually an Austrian Original, but neither are Pringles. They were first sold in the United States in 1968. However, to get Austrians to buy an American made potato “crisp” they must convince the...
We went to the Hofburg, which is the Parliment building in Vienna andthe former Imperial palace of the Hofburg Empire, which few peopleknow extended as far as Mexico.There are tons of amazing statues all around the roof of the...
We got a lot of snow last week (for Vienna anyway), and it was perfect snow for making a snowman. Elora was really excited because she asks to build a snowman every time she sees even a tiny bit of snow on the ground.Little...
So we were told that we needed to go to Croatia by the MA35 people to renew our passport stamps. We were thinking “Croatia, isn’t that like the war zone place?”. But that was soooo 10 years ago apparently. Here...
We spent Friday driving around looking at castles. There are a ton of them around Salzburg. The first one we went to was Hohenwerfen, which was actually closed on the inside, so we just took some pics of the castle from various...
So Chris likes to take pictures while skiing, one was put up in the previous post. He was curious what he looks like while doing this, so I took a pic for him… I wonder why he wiped out on day one? Could it be he was so...
Chris made crepes for lunch today, which Elora calls roll pancakes. She had a couple left on her plate, and Chris sprinkled some powdered sugar on them for her. She said, “Thank you!” and I said, “You’re...