Posted in Travel on Jun 28th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow Not being a fan of Mozart or Sound of Music, four nights in Salzburg seems a bit long. Actually, there were three full days, and we crossed the border for Germany on one of the days. Still, we seemed to have more time than we needed. There was only a few […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 25th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow About half hour driving from Salzburg, crossing the border to Germany, there is a big national park called Berchtesgaden. It is a popular place to visit for people based in Salzburg. The best thing about staying in Salzburg for 4 nights is that we can have a pretty flexible schedule. When […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 24th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow As popular as Salzburg is as a tourist destination, I’m not sure if there was one attraction that I would call a must-see. Maybe the must-see thing there is the town itself, more precisely the Old Town, where Mozart used to roam around, or where they shot some of the scenes […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 24th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow The Salzburg City Center is actually surrounded by hills, with a river running through it. One of the hills is supposed to be in a good defensive position, which is why they have this big Fortress sitting on top of it. As Salzburg literally means Salt Castle, salt (which was valuable […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 23rd, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow Just outside of the city of Salzburg, there were a couple of places we visited. One is the Hellbrunn Palace, which is a popular attraction for the Sound of Music fans. All three of us watched the movie for the first time not long before the trip, but I think we […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 23rd, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow After spending a few days in Salzburg, we continued our road trip, and headed to Hallstatt, one of the most picturesque town in Austria. Chances are, you have seen a picture of it before knowing the name of the place (which is exactly the case for Naomi; she has a jigsaw […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 22nd, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow When we were planning for the trip, knowing that we would be going to Prague, I suggested going to Auschwitz in Poland, to visit the concentration camp there. But we didn’t feel comfortable enough to visit two countries in East Europe, so we dropped the idea. But we managed to include […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 22nd, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow Vienna was a little disappointing to us, mostly because of the weather (it was pretty much wet the whole time we were there.) Maybe in the back of our mind, we wish to have some classical music soundtrack to accompany us in Vienna, but we didn’t even see any street performers […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 21st, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow Vienna has plenty of museums, palaces, and museums that used to be palaces. There are quite a few museums close to the Imperial Palace in City Center; three of them are actually side-by-side in a complex called Museum Quarter. We visited two out of the three; one is called Leopold Museum, […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 20th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow It is interesting that, unlike other cities in this trip, we found quite a bit to do during evening/night time in Vienna. Top on the list was to watch a show in the opera house. We actually went there twice (because first time we were quite late, even for last minute […]
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