Tag: Austria

  • Travel night: Vienna to Berlin

    Travel night: Vienna to Berlin

    The sleeper edition! We had a good full day today, with the boys and Jennie having an epic trip to the Natural History Museum, while I went off to the Museum of Austrian History, which was fascinating, but would have been a nightmare with the kids! What’s engaging for me, isn’t necessarily for them… In…

  • Vienna

    Vienna

    After a bit of a lie in, and a breakfast of waffles and Milka spread (in lieu of Nutella), we (despite the children’s protestations) headed out on the self-guided walking tour which I had found online. Our starting point was the Hofburg Imperial Palace, former home of the Hapsburg family who ruled for hundreds of…

  • Travel day: Lake Bled to Vienna

    Travel day: Lake Bled to Vienna

    We had a really friendly taxi driver taking us to Lesce-Bled station (I was overruled on making the boys walk 7km with their bags at the start of the day!) She is a scuba diver too, and was telling us about the problems with invasive species from peoples brought-in boats, which are now banned from…