The kids have been seeing billboards all over the city for Tramway Tag, which sounded like just the activity for us (more specifically, Oliver). He was so excited about it that he ripped out an advertisement from the newspaper...
Tag - Train
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 kept driving by the Dole Pineapple Plantation and I decided that I really wanted to go. The big attraction was the maze, which was the Guinness Book of World Records largest maze in the world a few years...
Every year the there is a big picnic in the town of Alton, just down the road from us. We were excited to go this year – there is always good food, and of course, a little “train” ride that the kids...
On this day we spent a lot of time walking all over London. This was the same day we were at the British Museum. Afterwards we went to Buckinham Palace and hung out at St. James Park.Here we are at Buckingham Palace. We...
In London, most of the big museums are free. And the kids love museums, so we were pretty happy about this. Here’s Oliver at the Science Museum (right across the street from the LDS church actually). He was excited about...
Day 2 begins with more pastries. This time it was “Tiroler Art”. Tirol is a section of Austria, and it’s funny that the Germans did a better job making the Tirolian pastry than we have ever had in Austria…...
To start, a couple of nice panorama photos from our first, and only, nice-weather day of skiing a few days earlier. The top one was taken while riding the lift, the bottom one taken on the trail down from that lift. The views...
The ICE (inter city express), high speed bullet train is the train we took to and from Frankfurt for our recent trip. It was a long ride from Vienna to Frankfurt with about 10 two stops in between over the course of 7 hours. Most...