Kaiser Franz Joseph

12/21/2008 Vienna- Schoenbrunn Derag Hotel And Living Hotel Kaiser Franz Joseph Day 2 Using the sehr sehr (and very) efficient Austrian rail system, we went to Schoenbrunn - the Hapsburg's imperial summer palace.Superb. Spent the day there touring the ...

... , the summer residence of the royal family and learning more about Sissi, or Kaiserin Elisabeth.  She was married to Kaiser Franz Joseph and has become a beloved national figure.  A whole movie series was made in the 50's about her life, which I ...

... an Italian anarchist in Geneva in 1898 at the age of 61. We had a fantastic wander through the Kaiser apartments and saw where and how Sissi and Franz Joseph lived. Franz Joseph was apparently a workaholic, starting his day around 3:30, and not finishing ...

... agriculture items and tourism. First, we are taken up the Imperial Staircase to the Imperial Corridor.  At one time Kaiser Franz Stephen von Lothringen was commander and ruler of the German-Roman Empire between 1745 and 1765, and lived ...

... nobody listening. More jostling and pushing and they move to the next room and then silence and quiet contemplation prevails. The ruler Franz Joseph had it tough. He loved his wife Sisi dearly but she didn't reciprocate, in fact she said she wished she ...

... decorations, and the audioguide (which I got in German), gave us lots of information about the palace in the time of Franz Joseph (who was Kaiser until 1916) and his wife Elisabeth (whom we think had an eating disorder, her waist was 19" and she only ate ...

 Nach 2 verregneten aber entspannten Tagen in Greymouth haben  wir uns die beiden  Gletscher "Franz Joseph" und "Fox" vorgenommen. Ersterer wurde von einem Österreicher nach seinem Kaiser benannt und letzeren hat Premierminister Fox im ...

... Josephina, Isabella, and Elizabeth( and Sisi for nick name).  All the male family members were named using combo of Joseph, Kaiser, Karl, Franz and I and II that became I.  One of the rooms was where Mozart played for Empress Maria Theresa when ...

The Great Adventure has begun... Intrepid Journeys eat your heart out! We arrived in Vienna very tired after a marathon haul from AKL -LAX-LHR-VIE...Premier Economy made it reasonably bearable though we didn't get too much sleep. Got a bit cranky when we ...