Both the castle and the palace we visited were on the hills above Sintra a small picturesque touristy town. Portuguese architecture uses a lot of painted tiles. It was interesting to see all the buildings and shops with the...
Tag - Food
We’re in Portugal! There’s a company I wanted to visit with in Lisbon and I have a friend here we are staying with. We were told by someone in Vienna we absolutely had to try these pastries in Lisbon. Apparently this...
Here are some random photos we found amusing for one reason or another. The two teddies, as I found them one night when I walked out in the hall. Guess which one is the dirty teddy? Gummy Hamburgers. We got Elora this gummy...
We had the missionaries over to try out our new favorite dessert recipe, Topfenknoedel, which we put a Lindt truffle inside before cooking and added some sugary Strawberry sauce. Yumm. Recipe requires Topfen (aka Quark) which...
We spent some time just wandering around the city and enjoying the general splendor of the architecture and random statues.This is the cave church (I don’t know the official name…) that was built into the side of the...
The Vienna Naschmarkt is a large open air fresh meat, fish, fruit, veggies, spices, etc. market stretching over a kilometer long. There are also quite a few little restaurants and cafes there. We go there for some grocery...
Look! Our seeds actually sprouted and are growing! Every day Elora tells me, “I am so happy, the plants are growing!” In another pot in a different window, our green bean plants are hitting the ceiling. Wow. What you...
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...
The Naschmarkt has a Turkish/African food store, where we bought some huge tortillas. Mexican food ingredients are very hard to come by in Vienna. Here I am spreading some $9 per pound cheddar cheese on the largest quesadilla...
You can take the farmer out of dirt but you can’t take the dirt out of the farmer. We thought it would be nice to grow an indoor garden because we miss our garden back home and Elora talks about it all the time. Everytime...