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Grüß Gott from Linz!
We rolled into Linz this afternoon after a stop in Melk to visit the Benedictine abbey fortress there. Melk Abbey is an incredible site and an absolutely beautiful place. It has been in continuous use as an abbey by the Benedictines since 1059 and the place is in great shape after some careful maintenance and a few well-planned restorations over the last 1200 years. Most of the pictures with this post are of the Melk Abbey but they didn't allow photography in the ...
Salzburg, Austria
... representing the 4 aspects of the life, earth, air, water and fire. We then passed by the home where Mozart lived for much of his adult life, and walked on across the Salz River by way of a bridge covered with thousands of locks left by lovers who pledge their devotion by attaching a lock then throwing the key into the river.
Various beggars approached us a we crossed the bridge, but Eva told us that the beggars are managed by the Mafia, and not to give them anything. ...
Phenomenal Churches
... the trees are mostly golden. On a
Following dinner, there was a demonstration on making paella, which was interesting, but unless you were planning a dinner for 30 of your nearest and dearest, I don't think it would be anything that any of us will ever make.
Tomorrow is another early morning as we set off for a full day in ...
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... 340,000 lives are thought to have been taken. This wide range represents the best scholarship to communicate the results when some men, guards and prisoners alike, brutalized others in ways that stagger the imagination. Nazi war gains in the 1939-42 timeframe populated this camp with a dizzying variety of human beings from all corners of Europe and places as distant as Cuba and China. The administrators here were SS men who grappled with the task of ...
Linz and Cesky Kromlov
... travelled through the countryside on two lane roads, The scenery is beautiful with all the trees turning colors of yellow and red. It is pretty cold today, only in the mid fifties. One thing we did not bring enough of was warmer sweaters and jackets.
On the way we stopped in the town of Budweiss which is named after the family that started Budweiser beer in Europe. They sold the rights for ...
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