Big Adventures, Little World

Archive for 2010

We had a bit of a sombre stop to start the day at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp from which was used during World War II by the Nazis. It was quite strange wandering around the camp and learning of some of the things that the prisoners were made to do while in the camps. I [...]

We started the day with a walking tour through the city of Vienna visiting the palaces and other monuments and museums. Most things are all within a short walk of each other, all around what’s called the ring road, which is just a big circle and has all the famous places around it. Once we [...]

After arriving in Vienna the first thing we did was go straight to the Hofburg Palace which used to be just the summer residence for the family. The Palace was huge in itself but then the entire grounds of the place were about another 20 times bigger. We could have spent hours there looking around [...]

Our day started with a walking tour through the city of Venice, which is by far the best way to get around. That or on a boat through the canals. Hottie guided us through the city showing us a few sights here and there, like the Bridge of Sighs, which has been ruined giant advertising [...]

We had a long day ahead of us, but luckily it was broken up with a short stop in Verona, the home of Romeo & Juliet. Verona was such a beautiful city and we could have spent hours there, unfortunately we had only about an hour and only had time to see the ‘Tunnel of [...]