I have always wanted to see Dürnstein, a little town outside of Vienna where Richard the Lionheart was captured and held captive after the crusades. I had heard the story and heard it is a beautiful area of Austria, so we...
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We had intended to take a Sound of Music bus tour the last day. We had to check out of our apartment early and had a late night train home. That meant a whole day of carrying all our backpacks, halberds, and souvenirs before...
Oliver has been asking to visit Salzburg since the day he found out Mozart was born there, so a couple weeks ago we decided to plan a trip! We stayed in Salzburg for five days, and lucked out with a pretty great airbnb apartment...
We spotted posters for a Ritterfest (Knight Festival) in Wolkersdorf this weekend, so early this morning we got up to catch the train so we could check out our first Ritterfest of the year! We love any sort of Knight or Middle...
I have been wanting to take the kids to see a show at the Marionette Theater at the Schonbrunn ever since we moved here. Our friend Jessica said she had really wanted to go as well, so we headed out to see The Magic Flute. The...
I know everyone wants more pics of Marion, but as we are trying to adjust to our new life with three kids, I am afraid we haven’t taken many pictures, let alone found time to put them up on the internet! So here is an old...
A few weeks ago we went to check out Laxemburg Castle. It is just outside of Vienna on a lake.Here is a church in the little town of Laxemburg. We couldn’t go inside, but the outside and the surrounding town was very...
These pictures are from June. I kept waiting until we had the video we took to upload, but that just kept being put off… so finally, we decided to go on a date since we haven’t done that in awhile, and when the new...
We have been wanting to take family pictures for awhile now, so when the weather was sunny for a few weeks we got the kids ready in their cute Austrian clothes, and headed over to the Schonbrunn to take some pics!The funny thing...
We stayed for 2 days in the town of Friesach for a medieval festival, which we also went to last year called the Friesach Spectaculum. Our friend who was one of the missionaries here in Vienna came to visit with his Mom. Here you...