Donauhof
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Grüß Gott from Linz!
... and coffee. Stephne also found some irresistible sweaters that are hard to find at home. The quality and selection of colors here really suit those of us who are of central European decent and it is funny to find whole department stores full of stuff that looks like it was made for you! And the fact that the sales women in the store are, themselves wearing drindles, just underscores the point: this is our culture! More Linz tomorrow and then we will drive on to ...
Categories and numbers ...
Mathausen - a village in mountainous Austria was the touring destination today. There and in many sober hours after we ponder the meaning of categories and numbers. In 1938 the authorities from Germany's newly-constituted Austria command established a work camp in this place nearby a quarry that had previously furnished granite for the building done in Vienna. The commemorative posters spell out a story of one of mankind's darkest chapters --eventually some ...
Linz and Cesky Kromlov
... we continued by bus to another town beyond Passau to meet the boat. While waiting, we searched and found a local pub (beer only). Inside was a large group of men drinking beer, singing and playing an accordian and guitar. Evidently Octoberfest had just ended and they were still having a good time. The beer was good and it was fun listening to the "entertainment". We finally boarded the boat, had dinner and ...
Day 15
... wearing waitresses. Bec ordered the suckling pig with a 1L radler/shandy & I ordered the pork knuckle with crackling with a 1L stein of beer. Just amazing & €40 odd well spent. So big and hearty...or heart attacky... Words cannot express how perfect this food was served! We quickly ducked downstairs and grabbed a TopDick pin for the lanyard before bussing back to base, only to be greeted by Munich's coldest night all year in our ...
Mauthausen - concentration camp
... help them eg. Most of them could not eat! I stood in the gas chambers and also went through where they 'slept' and where they cremated their bodies..... Really disturbing few hours!!! I was very shocked by the size of the camp (I always imagined them very large!) and also by how modern the buildings were... It's very hard to imagine that it only happened 60-70 years ...
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