Hotel Zur Lokomotive Linz
Weingartshofstrasse 40 Linz, Upper Austria, Austria
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Frohe Weihnachten!
... still wonderful. It has booths selling gluhwein (hot wine) pastries, chocolate covered fruits, roasted nuts, and many other souvenir type items.
There are many lights throughout the city, mostly in Hauptplatz, that light up the town and are so beautiful. The Austrian's "Christmas symbol" is Christkindl (baby Jesus) instead of Santa Claus, although, with the commercialization of American and its Santa has ...
Thanksgiving in Austria
This past Thursday the group of Americans here (and some Canadians) celebrated Thanksgiving together! I was rather impressed with ourselves too. The whole sha-bang went well and we had everything we would normally eat at home and none of the food turned out to be a disaster. While the food was still in the oven we had appetizers of veggies and dip, a cheese ball, pizza dip and chips, and some shrimp with cocktail sauce. For ...
Die Reise beginnt ...
... Objektive im Handgepäck die Aufmerksamkeit (Zusatz Eva: Wolfi war dieses Mal aber sogar rasiert :-)) und ich wurde in ein Sepparee geführt wo ein Sprengstofftest vorgenommen wurde - HURRA. Rausgekommen dabei ist natürlich nichts ;-)
Frankfurt - Singapur
Der Flug nach Singapur war schon sehr lange, nach ca. 9 Stunden Flugzeit gab mir das auch mein Körper zu spüren was für etwas Aufregung gesorgt hat. Nach kurzem Schwindel wurde ...
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 I seriously got goosebumps. It was so big and actually seeing it was really eery.
We had a guided 2-hour tour, but sadly I didn't find the tour guide all that great. He spoke ...
Danube cycle path...Schlogen to Linz
... clubs. As we approached Linz, the 3rd largest city in Austria, the path follows the roadway into town. We stopped with a group of cyclists trying to figure out the best approach to get up to the bridge. That is where we heard the first English since leaving Prague, an Australian couple was on the same route from Passau to Vienna. The ride over the bridge is spectacular, ending at the large old town square. There were trams, light rail vehicles, tourist mini-trains, pedestrians ...
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