Vienna is such a wonderful city to walk around in we decided to spend the day walking with the kids and Nana. Here we are at one of Ollie’s favorite fountains. He likes the statues and running water. The merpeople statues...
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We took Mom (Nana) to visit the church at Karlsplatz. The outside is very beautiful, and you have to pay to go in. So we always wanted to wait until we had a nice clear day outside because there is a panorama look out that is...
On our last day in Budapest, we walked across the river to the “Buda” side of the city to walk around the Budavar castle and Fisherman’s Bastillion. The other side of the city, across the river where we were...
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...
To read the entirity of this post, click “Finish Reading” below. Our third and final day in Prague was marked by a few circular detours across the city. We discovered this interesting set of scupltures. I love it when...
A friend told us we had to go see Kostnice, otherwise known as the Bone Church, which is located in Kutna Hora about 1 hour by train from Prague. The Bone Church is decorated with between 40,000 and 70,000 skeletons. Lots of...
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...
We spent a few days in Prague, and it is definitely one of the most beautiful cities we’ve seen yet. Very old, and medieval looking, along with a lot of classical architecture as well. We had so much fun in just a few days...
Chris wanted me to see a little slice of California in Vienna, so wewent to Mexikoplatz! Nothing says California like Mexico! This is called Mexikoplatz because when the Nazis took over Austria before WWII, Mexico was one of two...
The Belem Monastery in Lisbon is right next to the pastry shop we went to on the first day. Belem means Bethlehem in Portuguese. It was too crowded during the weekend so we came back on a weekday.It was a really huge building...