Another perfect day.  I found this museum and pulled up out the front in the loading zone to view the ...

In Austria, the maypole (or Maibaum) is a tradition going back to the 16th century - and it is interesting to ...

Leaving beloved Vienna yet again... headed for a week in a magnificent hotel just outside Salzburg... I have been here ...

Our adventure started before we even left the rental car place...  I couldn't find where to release the parking brake ...

What is one to do on a lovely evening in Vienna?  Take a sunset carriage ride, of course! Founded by ...

What a marvellous morning!  Renee, Bethany, and I started at the Fiaker stables - the Fiaker are the Viennese horse-drawn ...

Time to depart... Poor Bethany - at one point there was a luggage avalanche, but we saved her just in ...

Welcome to Hallstatt... We didn't end up wandering through the town, and instead headed off again - since we were ...

If you have been following my travels for many years, you may recall an event I went to when I ...

I knew the day would come...  Farewell to my beautiful Vienna...  Although I do not want to live there, I ...

For dinner, we went to das Loft with the most extraordinary views over Vienna... not to mention the delicious food! ...

Another of the items on my bucket list, was to have a Sacher Torte at the world-famous Sacher Hotel... ...so, ...

On my bucket list, you will note that one of the entries is owning a landau (convertible carriage) and horse, ...

Donna and I went in search of one historic location, and ended up finding another... This is the Schmetterlinghaus - ...

The Wachau region was inscribed as "Wachau Cultural Landscape" in the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in recognition of its architectural and ...

As we were touring through the Viennese countryside and in particular the Wachau Valley, we came across quite an assortment ...

In case you are interested, here is a snapshot of a normal day for me in Vienna... starting with the ...

Artstetten Castle (Schloss Artstetten) was the home to Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his family until the tragic events in Sarajevo ...

Donna, Alexander and I set off for a day of exploring the Viennese countryside, but first we went hunting to ...

Leaving the majestic horses, we made our way back to Graz to find the 'Stairs of Reconciliation'... No matter where ...

...and now we head to the Lipizzaner Stud Farm in Piber, Austria - and being a horsey-girl, this was such ...

Anyone who has seen "Under the Tuscan Sun" (or if you are like me and have seen it so many ...

What do pink bunny rabbits, the Vienna Woods, monasteries, and boat trips in underground Nazi airplane factories (yes, you read ...

Cruising on the River Danube from Vienna to Slovakia, making new friends, and all in aid of a good cause ...

What a magnificent day! Slept in, then rugged up (it was minus 1 outside and lightly snowing), walked literally 3 ...

Vienna abounds with luxury, elegance, and beauty - and they were all combined in my experience last night at the ...

I booked this event weeks ago and have been looking forward to it ever since.  Not only was the Kursalon ...

Curled up in my lovely apartment, and I begin to hear a thudding cadence approaching... At first I thought, oh, ...

Some people will do anything to get out of work, including burying their tractor in snow... Another soul out for ...

Final updates before I leave Vienna... Siting here finishing lunch, I thought I would give you a quick update on a ...

Vintage Ferris Wheel - the highlight of my trip! You know how I am about history, particularly that which falls ...

Welcome to Vienna! Although I do not tend to have rigid ideas of what a place will be like before ...