Austria

We are now north of the Alps, where the weather is cold and dreary, but it is still very nice to be back in German-speaking lands. Not to mention the lands of the Christmas markets! Salzburg We had a long train ride from Verona to S...

Well, I'm sorry to say our internet access in Verona was slow and unreliable, so I wasn't able to upload Venice photos from there. Boo. And now we are in a great hotel in Salzburg and the internet seems good, but something has gone wro...

Lots going on lately and hard to keep up on the blog! I was planning to post last night but I came down with a bad cold as the day progressed and all I could manage to do after dinner was watch some TV (Bridget Jones dubbed into German...

We left Innsbruck around noon yesterday and headed west to Switzerland, which as you might imagine was a gorgeous drive, especially in the good weather. We made two unscheduled stops along the way, based on seeing historical markers on...