Cruising on the River Danube from Vienna to Slovakia, making new friends, and all in aid of a good cause – what a wonderful way to invest one’s day! After leaving home and walking across the road to grab a taxi (and spotting yet another beautiful door!)… …I arrive at the Twin City Liner jetty at …
What a magnificent day! Slept in, then rugged up (it was minus 1 outside and lightly snowing), walked literally 3 minutes past the opera house where I stepped into a horse-drawn carriage and rode around Vienna for an hour, had a magnificent lunch, strolled home via a stop in a very cute clothing and accessories …
Vienna abounds with luxury, elegance, and beauty – and they were all combined in my experience last night at the Hotel Bristol. Opened in 1892, this beautiful hotel was named after the British town of Bristol. The photo above is from their website – I wasn’t able to catch one of the doorman myself… Former …
I booked this event weeks ago and have been looking forward to it ever since. Not only was the Kursalon on my bucket list, but the thought of going to a Strauss concert and listening to Strauss music being played where STRAUSS himself used to play his compositions… Bliss! The website captures it perfectly: “In …
Curled up in my lovely apartment, and I begin to hear a thudding cadence approaching… At first I thought, oh, it’s a small parade or something… …and then they kept coming… …and coming… …and coming… …and coming… For almost an hour they kept coming, despite the snow that was beginning to flurry… …and somehow it …
Although I forgot to program fine weather into the holodeck for this trip, I had a marvellous time travelling by road from Budapest to Vienna, with a stop-off in Bratislava in Slovakia. While there are no border crossings for passport checking and the like, one does need to have a sticker for the particular country’s …
Until this trip, I had no idea Hungary had wineries – let alone over one hundred of them just in this region only thirty minutes from Budapest! …and if you think that is a lot, consider that once there were over 1,000 wineries in Etyek. Crossing the beautiful River Danube once more (you will be …
Entering through these reasonably ‘normal’ looking doors of the Urania – pronounced oo-RAY-ne-yah – of this theatre / cinema, one has no idea they are actually a time machine, transplanting one back to the late nineteenth century… …even the previews were of old movies, and of theatrical productions… Oh, and the movie I saw was “The …
There is a first time for everything – and today was my first ‘ruin pub’ experience in Budapest, and also my first visit to the magnificently beautiful cinema here! The day started with me going off exploring… OK, so I wasn’t able to go far, but one doesn’t need to here. There are cool venues, …
[Simply use your mouse or fingers to move around this 360 image] Overlooking the beautiful River Danube, the Citadella (the English translation of the Hungarian word for citadel) is perched on the top of Gellért Hill in Budapest. My first intention was to stop in at the restaurant part way up the hill for lunch, but the owner …
