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...
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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...
On our last day, the snowing stopped and the sun finally came out! It was a beautiful morning, so we headed off to the slopes. Here is a view from the chairlift. The chairlifts are crazy, they take you to the top of huge...
So we cooked meals at the apartment in BKK (Bad Kleinkirchheim) every night except this night. Both the kids were sick so we waited until the last night to go out. We tried to go early in the evening, but when we arrived at this...
So here we are on the chair lift that is just across from our hotel. It was actually raining like crazy down below, which isn’t that fun sitting on a chairlift getting drenched in the rain. Up top there was some awesome...
Our 6 day ski passes came with a 3 day pass to “the Thermes” (pronounced “terms”), a thermal bath and spa. It’s basically a big swimming pool complex, where instead of having heated water the pools...
We’re on a trip right now to Bad Kleinkirchheim, a ski town in lower Austria. To get there we had to spend most of the day on train or bus or making connections. It involved a long walk to the first train, a train ride to...
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...
We went on a fun drive through the mountains in our rental car, and passed a lot of fun castles and ruins. We thought how nice it would be if we had a car so we could come back and explore all these fun places. The mountain roads...