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The day was a debacle from the get-go. You can see from Sherry’s blog, that last night (Thursday) was a tough, short-sleep night, regularly interrupted. But it got worse. It should have been easy. We had our tickets for the train to Milano Centrale, then the connections in Milan for our ride to Florence. But […]

How can I even begin to describe the beauty of the Swiss Alps? But first . . . We got in late last night, and at check-in the receptionist says, “Oh great – so you have 2 rooms tonight?” What? “What do you mean 2 rooms???” “Well, you reserved one room directly with us and

Not much happening today. It was cold, wet, windy and rainy nearly all day long. We had our breakfast at the hotel, went for a long walk – yes, in the rain. and came back to the hotel. Spent most of the afternoon researching our next leg of the trip. Looks like Interlaken, Switzerland it

   Spent much of the early morning in the hotel today. It was cold out (47 degrees) and raining. And we had a reservation for a Walking Tour of the city at 11 am. Yes, you read that right. A walking tour. In the rain. In the cold. Thank goodness Rick Steves highly recommended –

Today was mostly a travel day. We got to the Train Station in Vienna and found a spot to sit and write a bit. As it came close to the time for us to board, I noticed that our seat reservation ticket showed a different train number than our train ticket! Oh Boy! Train ticket

I can’t believe it’s already been 3 weeks! Tomorrow morning, we head for Salzburg – also in Austria, but at the western end, nearing Switzerland and curving back towards Southern Germany.      The highlight of the day probably wasn’t the laundromat – though they have machines that will wash AND dry AND automatically put

Walking through the down to get to our Hostel, I wondered if we really ought to be staying 3 nights here. But then . . . the Hostel is great. It’s called the St. Christopher’s Inn and is by far the nicest one we’ve stayed in so far. Notice the quilts . . . There’s no top sheet

Today (Thursday) is another travel day. We got up and worked on finishing blog posts, and repacking our “stuff” for the trip. It’s pretty surprising how good you can get at packing when you carry all your worldly possessions in one carry-on sized suitcase and one backpack for day travels. Since checkout was at 10am,

Can you imagine coming to this gate, where the sign says, “Work Makes You Free?” Only to find that everything about the camp is a lie. Above is the entrance to Auschwitz. To the right is the entrance to Birkenau. There’s so much that needs to be said – and impossible to capture the emotions

Yesterday, Day 15, was a complete travel day from Prague to Krakow. We weren’t sure about some of the trains, so we were at the train station pretty early. Got our seat reservations and waited for our train . . . We had to change trains midway and it’s pretty challenging hearing the announcer over