Exploring the American Landscape
Prepared for a week in a large city after our breather in Salzburg, we headed off to Vienna on our easiest train journey yet: just under 2.5 hours on an Inter-City Express with just a handful of stops before reaching Wien Hauptbahnhof. From there it was a short ride on the U1 subway line to … Read more
En route from the Dolomites to Vienna, our other main destination, our train journey passed back through Innsbruck (where we spent three nights a week earlier) and Salzburg. We decided to break up the trip to Vienna with a brief two-night stay in Salzburg to spend a day exploring the city. This also gave us … Read more
After wading through thousands of words in my prior two posts about Munich and Innsbruck, a reader could be forgiven for believing that the main purpose of this European adventure is to visit German-speaking cities. But all that was just a lead-up to one of the two primary destinations of this trip: the eastern portion … Read more
Our stay in Innsbruck, Austria covered Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and this year Saturday was Maria Himmelfahrt (Assumption), a national holiday in Austria. We knew that some destinations might close for the holiday, and that we might encounter unusual crowds, but with a little maneuvering we made it work. After two enjoyable days in Munich … Read more
We’re off to Europe! Our first stop was the somewhat unlikely destination of Munich. While Munich is an important commercial center in Germany, its most-visited attractions — things like BMW-Welt and a completely over-the-top Oktoberfest — are not exactly our jam. Add to that the fact that the majority of Munich was destroyed by bombs … Read more