Melk, Austria
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Bratislava, Slovakia
This is part of a series called Viking Grand European Tour Today we stopped in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia since 1993 and earlier the capital of Hungary (remember what I said about Hungary being on the wrong “team” most of the time?). Clearly Slovakia got the best bits and Bratislava is a lovely (and…
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Prague, Czech Republic
So, on we have gone to Prague, recognized as the “first beautiful city,” mostly thanks to Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor during the mid-14th Century. During his reign, Prague grew into one of Europe’s largest and most prosperous cities. While it reminded us a bit of Kraków, it is easily 2-3 times its size….
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Krakow, Poland
We started our 2015 European adventure off visiting Kraków, Poland. Of course, part of the adventure was actually getting there. It took us about 36 hours – flights from Boston to Zurich, Zurich to Munich, Munich to Prague, and then the overnight train to Kraków. This was mad worse by the fact that Swiss Air…
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Sculpting clay at a wood carving school and Oberammergau
This is part of a series called Our Alpen Adventure Last Christmas Deb gave me an amazingly thoughtful gift — a weeklong carving school in Austria. In her research she found that in addition to wood and stone carving, they also did clay sculpting (apparently you always start with a clay model before you start…
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