Schloss Schonbrunn
8. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Day 1 in Vienna we spend at the summer palace of the Hapsburgs
Vienna city
9. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
We spent the day exploring Vienna mostly on foot
Travel day
10. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Travel day from Vienna to St Agatha. Two trains and then a taxi to the hotel.
St Agatha circuit walk
11. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ 🌙 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
12. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Mountain climbing
13. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Glaciers, mountain lakes and cowbells
14. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ ☀️ 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 aWeiterlesen
Day trip to Bad Ischl
15. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ 🌙 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. BadWeiterlesen
Mountain ridge walk
16. Oktober 2018 in Österreich ⋅ 🌙 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
17. Oktober 2018 in Belgien ⋅ 🌙 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
18. Oktober 2018 in Belgien ⋅ ⛅ 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
19. Oktober 2018 in Belgien ⋅ ⛅ 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'tWeiterlesen
Art & History Museum - Brussels
20. Oktober 2018 in Belgien ⋅ ⛅ 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 theWeiterlesen