Graz, Hallstatt, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Vienna
The Graz skyline is, well, unremarkable. The north side of town is dominated by the Grazer Schloßberg, a park high
There is something strangely satisfying riding a train, in relative comfort, across a foreign country. And so Stephanie and I
Day Two on our 48 hr Innsbruck Cards (Day One can be found here): We arrived at Hofkirche in time
Ordinarily we do not purchase city cards marketed to tourists, for the simple reason that we have no interest in
Innsbruck (meaning bridge over the inn, referring to the Inn River) is situated in the Inn Valley between the Tux
After walking past Augustiner Bräu for several days in a row, we finally ventured over to the largest beer hall
We spent our first hour in Salzburg wondering how in the hell we booked an Airbnb with no living area.
Hallstatt is an absolutely beautiful small town (population: less than 1,000). It is postcard pretty, which is probably what lures
Der Prunksaal der Ӧsterreichischen Nationalbibliothek, the State Hall of the Austrian National Library, is fascinating. Constructed in the early 1700s,
The two big ticket tourist destinations in Vienna are the imperial palaces of the Habsburgs, the Hofburg and Schloss Schönbrunn.
No visit to Vienna is complete without a trip to Wiener Staatsoper, the Vienna Opera House. We toured the building,
Albertina was the first art museum we visited in Vienna. It is located in a wing of the Hofburg imperial
We are getting better at using local transportation. For only the second time we took a train from the airport