Schloss Schonbrunn
October 8, 2018 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Day 1 in Vienna we spend at the summer palace of the Hapsburgs
Vienna city
October 9, 2018 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
We spent the day exploring Vienna mostly on foot
Travel day
October 10, 2018 in Austria ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Travel day from Vienna to St Agatha. Two trains and then a taxi to the hotel.
St Agatha circuit walk
October 11, 2018 in Austria ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
A 17km round trip walking from St Agatha to the Ewiege Wand (Eternal Wall) to Bad Goisern and back to St Agatha. We saw deer which was pretty cool.
Walk from St Agatha to Halstatt
October 12, 2018 in Austria ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Mountain climbing
October 13, 2018 in Austria ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Glaciers, mountain lakes and cowbells
October 14, 2018 in Austria ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
We caught a taxi to Gosau lake (Gosausee). Glacier on the mountain behind the lake, falling yellow and red leaves everywhere, Austrian families out for the day all around us. Round the lake then aRead more
Day trip to Bad Ischl
October 15, 2018 in Austria ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Bus trip to Bad Ischl to get some Fixomull for Clinton's blisters (Blister, in Austrian!). Bad Ischl is like the main town in the valley, while the valley in itself is a big city, but spread out. BadRead more
Mountain ridge walk
October 16, 2018 in Austria ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
BIG day today. Went up the mountain by cable car, walked down the mountain to home. We are very proud of ourselves. Spectacular scenery, no flat bits as half of the walk was on ski field meadows!
Gosau, Austria to Salzburg to Brussels
October 17, 2018 in Belgium ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
A rainbow unicorn memento from Gosau, visited Mozart's home town (they love him), caught crazy bus trams then flew to Brussels.
Tintin museum
October 18, 2018 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Visited the Tintin museum outside of Brussels. Very cool, even Nanna couldn't pretend not to be interested! Got a T-shirt and a bag of course...
Day trip to Bruges
October 19, 2018 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We visited Bruges today, a quite spectacular medieval city nearer to the coast than Brussels. Canals, cobblestones, thin tall houses squished together. There is a Vlamingh Straat, though I couldn'tRead more
Art & History Museum - Brussels
October 20, 2018 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
A lovely and rather large (and mercifully empty) museum. The Saturday crowds out on the shopping streets of Brussels are rather impressive in their density and extent! We were glad to escape theRead more