Our hotel room was very small and adorned by a very interesting tall angled window. Not unlike one you would find in an old castle for firing arrows, but slightly wider. As usual, I opened the window up for some air. I find...
Read MoreGiven that our room at the Hasenda Mexicana had none of the wifi available as advertised in our room, we used the restaurant’s bar to update the blog. Paul was looking forward to some huevos rancheros for breakfast but,...
Read MoreThe church bells of the city of Pula mercifully didn’t go off at 7:30 this morning. Having been awakened many times during the night by the boisterous participants of parties going on somewhere nearby, it was a relief...
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Monday Sept. 24th. We are leaving Hungary today and are pointing the car towards Vienna. We will...
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Tue. Sept. 25th. Austria doesn’t like us!! We were rained on last time around when we drove...
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Wed. Sept. 26 Leaving Vienna today as we start to winding down the trip. Today we head for a...
Read MoreWhat a great day! We are in Vienna. It is a very big city, it is in Austria. We went to a museum with all kinds of interesting old stuff. I got to sit on top of an elephant. Lucky for me it was just a bronze baby elephant and...
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We landed in Halsett Hallstatt [editor’s note: hat tip to param for the correction] just...
Read MoreThur. Sept. 20 We got a great place to stay in St. Wolfgang we had a little balcony and could see the church and a bit of the lake and mountains from it. The rain finally let up just about dinner time. I took advantage of our...
Read MoreWed. Sept. 19th We awoke in the morning to the sound of rain. looked out the window and saw were were enveloped in clouds. The Alps were there some place but nowhere to be seen. We had a nice breakfast in the German way, a large...
Read MoreToday we had a really fun adventure! We took a cog train ride to the top of a very high mountain. The lady selling tickets said there was light fog and some snow. When we got to the mountain it was all in the clouds. I guess...
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