Hotel Engel
Travel Blogs from Bregenz
A Hundred Places in 36 Hours
... by the size and elaborate golden architecture of the church, along with the mural paintings on the walls and the big organ that stood in the back of the church. The climb to the top was ************g and I was a bit claustrophobic inside because of the narrow and tight winding staircase that gets you to the top. Even though my legs were shaking when we reached the highest point we had a great view and I felt like we were among the clouds (however, ...
Our last day of riding
... motorway took us right along the border of Switzerland and Lichtenstein, it was getting to early afternoon so we didn’t have time to go into Lichtenstein as we did not want to ride into the valley when it was dark.
Just after we crossed into Austria we began to climb up again and hit snow again – yippee. We had ridden this pass a few times but never in nice clear weather so today it was great to be able to see the mountains and enjoy the pass. We took ...
Not much in Lichtenstein
... noodles and reading my book for quite some time before going for a walk through the town. Memmingen is a gorgeous place with a beautiful old town with a little stream running through it and lots of old colourful buildings. After my wander and once it started to rain, I headed back to the car where I did some blogging and photo sorting before heading back to my friends place where I was ...
Bad Reichenhall to Lindau
... t have an afternoon sleep so he was getting pretty grizzly so we quickly ate and then headed upstairs to put him to bed. We were pretty tired so we went to bed at the same time as him! He woke up around 1am and was determined to not go back to sleep despite all our efforts! His eye teeth are still causing him a lot of pain. So we let him run around the hotel room for awhile and then I managed to cuddle him back off to ...
A crash course in Appenzeller history and culture
... out because of the mechanization of the machines and the fact that they were too expensive for individuals to buy. We then wandered up to the second floor where they had artwork from regional artists. There were a couple of pieces that we really liked and there was also a wall painting from that dated back to 1597. Having completed our visit of the museum, we decided to head back to camp and have a relaxing afternoon since it was still raining ...