On our last full day in Rome, we decided to walk around to various sites we had missed and “had to see”. Rome had so many amazing sites, I know we missed a ton in our wanderings, but we really enjoyed our last day of...
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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...
Ah… Rome! On our first day in Rome we left our apartment near the Colosseum early in the morning, as we knew it was going to be a long day. The title of this post is, “You gotta be kidding me” because that is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We’re staying near the Opera house in Budapest. Today we decided to walk, instead of taking the metro, to Hero’s Square, which was 2.5km.Elora and Ollie were both very excited to get out of the stroller once we...
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...
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...