Each city has been better than the last. Vienna is the best, because it has the old city architecture with a new city vibe. Today we saw the Hapsburg summer palace and the Hapsburg apartments. [caption id="attachment_1904" align="alignnone" width="614"] Schönbrunn Palace, the Hapsburg summer palace[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1903" ...
Day 14 was all about the Habsburgs, the family that ruled the Holy Roman Empire and then the Austrian Empire for nearly 900 years... We traveled first to their summer palace, Schonbrunn, which is Vienna's answer to Versailles. Then, in the afternoon, we saw their city palace, the Hofburg, along with the famous Sisi Museum. At 7pm, "Iron ...
Day 13 and we are off again! Leaving at eight in the morning, we were on the road to Vienna and arrived at noon. After a quick lunch, students checked into their apartments, unpacked a bit, and then we headed to the local grocery store, where they purchased items for our first "Iron Chef Vienna" cooking night. We then proceeded to take a ...
Today students took a breather, having a free morning to either explore the castle perched above the town or stroll through the beautiful streets of Salzburg in search of chocolate and gifts for the home. Later in the afternoon, we took a lake and mountain tour around three gorgeous lakes right outside Vienna: Mondsee, Wolfgang ...
On our second day in Salzburg, we took a 2-hour bus ride to an important, if intense, a site in Austrian history: the Mauthausen Memorial, dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. The location used to be an old stone quarry and the internees were political prisoners from all around Europe. The site has moving memorials and reconstructions ...
We are off again! Today we left for Salzburg at 8 in the morning, making our way through the beautiful countryside of the Czech Republic and Austria. We arrived in the late afternoon to a little bit of rain, but also to gorgeous mountain scenery. We took a stroll through one part of the historic downtown area and stopped in at the house where ...