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Mauthausen
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Don't say 'I told you so'!
Today we left Munich. We were going to stay at another Couch Surfer Tom's house (where Nina was parked) for one night and leave on Saturday, but the sun was shining and bad weather was forecast for the next few days after so we though we would make the ...
Mauthausen and the Danube
We left the Czech Republic early in the morning and started for Mauthausen. Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Austria located high on a hill over the Danube with a rock quarry nearby. Mauthausen was not a death camp in the sense that ...
Following the Danube
... tour.. The reality of killing on an industrial scale 01 Aug, Monday Start point: Linz End point: Grein Via: Mauthausen Odom(Km): 69.94 Moving(hrs.mim): 4.40 Ave(Km/h): 15.0 Total Ascent(m): 405 Max Altitude(m) ...
Mauthausen, Concentration Camp, Austria
... seen about the horrors of the holocaust, nothing could had prepared me for a visit to a former concentration camp. Now a memorial site, Mauthausen stands on top of a hill in solitude and silence. I will not write much about it, since all there is to ...
Darkness in Austria's History
Yesterday we visited and toured the former concentration camp, Mauthausen, close by to Linz. We left at 10:15am and it was about a 25 minute drive by bus. As soon as we pulled up over the hill and the concentration camp was in view ...
DAY 2 of bike ride.
... doing extrememly well, not real injuries ( Jen ran into Henry ) only minor aches and pains you know where. Todat 64 km to Mauthausen. much wider valley and river, Big town of Linz was very industrial. About to go to dinner, more beer and Schnitzel) ...
Au an der Donauschlinge - Au an der Donau
... km zu fahren und dann zurueck auf das Schiff, Abendessen und Übernachten. Nach Ottersheim an das Nordufer gewechselt. In Mauthausen hat uns ein einheimischer Radfahrer durch die Baustelle gelotst. Weite Umleitung erspart. Auf dem Camping werden die ...
dinsdag 5 augustus
Dinsdag 5 augustus Eerst nog even bij de Plus wat broodjes, beleg en iets te drinken kopen. En dan tijgen we richting Köszeg. Dat kennen we nog van vorig jaar en we weten dat ze daar echte heksenbezems verkopen. Die hebben we hard nodig. Köszeg is ...
Schonbrunn Palace and Mauthausen
Our last two days in Vienna we visited Schonbrunn Palace and Mauthausen. Schonbrunn Palace was the 1,440 room summer residence of the Habsburgs dating back to the 16th century. Philip was our guide as usual and we had a great time taking a ...
Concetration Camp -- Mauthausen
... at Mauthausen and then to try to shake off the experience with a bike ride along the Danube valley in that region. Mauthausen, however, had different plans for us. This concetration camp is about 30K from Linz, Austria and is a bit of a ...
Mauthausen Concentration Camp
We took a group trip to Mauthausen Concentration Camp on September 30th. It was a few hours to get there; we took a combination of the Eurail and a bus. When we first got there, we watched a documentary that included interviews with all types of different ...
A beautiful view
On December 4th Keeghan, Sally, Nicole, Will, Alice, and I went to Mauthausen the concentration camp just outside of Linz. We got to the camp around eleven o'clock after a 2k walk up a mountain. As we were walking and shivering i couldnt help but think of ...
Concentration camps...
Stopped off for a few hours at Mauthausen to visit the concentration camps here from the 1930's-40's It is terribly sad what happened here...quite a sobering part of my trip really..makes you realise how lucky we all are to be able to travel around and ...
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