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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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...
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 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...
On this day we spent a lot of time walking all over London. This was the same day we were at the British Museum. Afterwards we went to Buckinham Palace and hung out at St. James Park.Here we are at Buckingham Palace. We...
We started the day by crossing the Charles Bridge to the side of Prague with the castle and parliament buildings. The city of Prague is so impressive with these medieval towers everywhere. It must have looked amazing a few...
Since the Schonbrunn Palace is close to our apartment it was the first touristy thing we took Amy and Amanda to do. The palace is huge with 1000 rooms and the grounds cover 500 acres. The tour we took only visited about 10 rooms...
Day 2 begins with more pastries. This time it was “Tiroler Art”. Tirol is a section of Austria, and it’s funny that the Germans did a better job making the Tirolian pastry than we have ever had in Austria…...
Our nieces Amy and Amanda are here for a visit for the next few weeks. We are so excited to be able to show them around some of our favorite places! They flew into Frankfurt last week, so we took the train up and showed them...