We went back to Friesach on a couple of different days to explore the city after the festival was over. It was a really neat place to walk around. The city is walled in still, and even has a moat around the outside. Up in the...
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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 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...
After our trip to Lindos, the bus took us back to Rhodes and we decided to walk around the old city one more time — this time in the moat! There is a dry moat all the way around the castle that is now a park and jogging...
Sorry, more Rhodes. But it was so much fun! Rhodes is a pretty big island, and we took an hour and a half long bus ride (with transfer) to the city of Lindos where there is a beautiful bay, and an ancient Greek temple inside of a...
Rhodes was so large, and we had such a fun time we headed back to the city another day. This time we came prepared with bathing suits and towels. We found a nice garden overlooked by the castle near one of the gates. Rhodes is...
Once we were inside the city, Elora kept asking if there was a castle, and if we could go inside it. So we tried to head straight to the palace. Unfortunately, with the narrow streets and no map – Elora had removed it from...
Here is Karen and Ollie in front of one of the castle gates. The old city of Rhodes is really a fortified city, surrounded by castle walls connected to a Palace of the Grand Master. Here is Karen in front of one of the castle...
Every morning we enjoyed breakfast on the beach. The food wasn’t really that great but for breakfast you can’t expect too much. One thing that was tasty is the fruit and quark (a heavy cream-like plain yogurt) they...
On our second day in Prague, we crossed the Danube to the other half of the city and…. (click Finish Reading below) Elora reminded us the Danube “goes all the way to Vienna!” (and to Budapest). There are several...