After skiing in the foggy weather, it was nice to finally get to see the mountains we were skiing on. Here you can see the town of Kühtai. Kühtai is not a typical Austrian ski town, in that it has not been here for hundreds of...
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Greetings from Kuhtai! We’re skiing this week in a tiny little town about 30 miles outside of Innsbruck, Austria. The town is the highest elevation ski-town in Austria and has a population of 13 in the summer time and about...
We got a great last minute deal on a rental car, so we decided to take a quick tour to the “real” Christkindlesmarkt in the Bavarian region of Germany. Salzburg, in Austria, is practically part of Bavaria, and on the...
For those of you who have never skied in Zermatt, passing by the Matterhorn as you continue on the 9 mile-long run down into town, this first-person-view video by me (Chris, with accompanying music and captions) will...
Who needs European hot chocolate? We had Swiss Miss! More good views of the Matterhorn. We had clear blue skies for the last few days of skiing. Amy and I were totally sore and only skiied half days, but Chris was a super all...
Up up we go in a packed gondola. Everyone was ready to enjoy the slopes after yesterdays stormy weather. After our crazy stormy day, we headed up into the cloudy mountains to find that the sun was shining at the top...
Here we are in Sparky’s, our favorite bar with free wifi and really good potato wedges. We spent a lot of time there checking our email and blogging. And Amy needed to chat with her boyfriend! Okay, so we sat...
Our first day in Zermatt! It was neat to wake up, look out the window and see the Matterhorn. The day was perfect blue skies and not too cold, a great day to start our trip. We stopped by a pastry shop to grab some treats...
So we woke up at 4:00am to head out to Zermatt. It should be about a ten hour drive and then we take a taxi or train into the town… so we loaded up the car and headed out. Bet all you Californians didn’t know...
Here is the grand finale of the Rome trip: Our last night in Rome we ordered a pizza… the best part of the pizza in Rome is the cheese, so a got a four cheese pizza. This is how we discovered that most pizza in Rome does...