We did another big trip seeing Vienna and the onto Prague. We rode in the Vienna’s Giant Ferris Wheel. You can even have dinner in it. Then we went and toured a huge palace called the Schloss Schonbrunn. I got sprayed by this huge fountain called Hochstrahlbrunnen. Next, we went to Prague. Here we walked across this stone bridge with statues across it and it…
Sandy beaches, historic villages, Marco Polo’s house, fortresses and a blue cave are just some of the sights to see on the islands around Split. Hvar An island that is 23 nautical miles by ferry from Split and 182 square miles in size and includes Hvar Town and Stari Grad. Hvar Town You can take a ferry directly from Split to go to this town….
Last week we went to Berlin, Gottingen and saw what my dad called the palace of Schloss Nymphenburg. We headed to Gottingen where papa had work. We went out on paddleboats on a big lake. Then we went up to a high hill and saw castle ruins. In the town there is this statue called the “Goose Girl” and she always has a full bouquet…
Trento is city of Renaissance fountains, towering mountains and apple strudel, due to it being once part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. It is located in northern Italy in the Alps with palaces where bishops used to come for the holidays and surrounded by nature with waterfalls and canyons. L’Orrido Di Ponte Alto A deep canyon with waterfalls just outside of Trento, in the 1500s the…
Dear Pre-School Class: My dad’s took me back to Austria. We rode a double decker bus across some high mountain passes of the Alps on the way. It was a long way down. In Innsbruck we took a gondola that started underground and went up to an Alpine zoo. We saw bighorn sheep, bears that came right up to the glass and fed the goats….
The old part of Split is tucked away in the ruins of a Roman palace and we’ll be exploring the city for a bit. We will leave here on a ferryboat bound for our last Dalmatian coast destination, Dubrovnik. Dioklecijanova Palace A fortress-like palace built by Roman Emperor Gaius Aurelia Valeria Diocletian in the 3rd century AD as his summer residence in his homeland. It…
We took a trip to see Vienna with its Gothic churches, Budapest, ‘the Paris of the East’ and Bratislava with its futuristic bridge and medieval old town. First we went to Vienna and saw the Karlskirche. They had these huge mirror balls hanging from the top. You could see the whole church and yourself reflected in the balls. We also took an elevator way up…
I’m a big “Game of Thrones” fans so when my husband had a conference in Dubrovnik where they film the series, I was definitely coming along. More than being a setting for this HBO fantasy series, the place is filled with old world charm and city walls that have stood the centuries and you can walk along them and gain a feel of life long…
We headed to the big Swiss city of Zurich and took a short funicular up to see over the city on the lake. I went to a restaurant that put cheese on everything, yummy. Lucerne was a city of wooden bridges. They were long and went across this clear river. It was rainy a bit so it was nice not to have to get wet. …
Rovinj is a picturesque former Venetian village on a hill in the blue waters of the Adriatic Sea that we hope to spend a day at while we’re in Croatia. Its red-shingled houses surround the St. Euphemia Cathedral at the top of the hill with the highest tower in Istria at 200 feet. The town started out as a small settlement in Roman times to…
