Rome: Day 2 – The Vatican

Day 2: The kids woke up early, and it was another nice sunny day. We decided that although the Vatican is pretty far from the rest of the sites that we would walk there first thing in the morning, and then see a few sites on our...

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Back to Salzburg!

Our last day we went back to Salzburg, stopping first at the Schloss Hellbrunn that we read about on the internet. It is a beautiful little palace that was built in the 1600s by the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Markus Sittikus...

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Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest! We drove into Munich, but parked near an Ubahn (subway) stop far away from the festival to avoid traffic and crowds. We never had to wonder which way to go on the train to get to the festival because we just followed...

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Salzburg – Day 1

Last week Chris said, Hey! We have to go to Oktoberfest! So we looked around and found an apartment to rent the day before we wanted to leave, rented a car, and off we went! We were actually staying near Salzburg, so the first...

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Back in Budapest

My (Chris’) Mom came to visit us in Vienna and we decided to take the train over to Budapest for a few days.Here we are after our full 3 hour train ride (which the Austrian train service calls a “just over 2 hour...

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Schloss Strassburg

We stayed right next to the town Strassburg, which like all towns in Austria, had a castle – so we decided to check it out.The castle was originally built in the 1100s, and added onto in the 1500s and 1600s. There was a...

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