We arrived here in Berlin a few days ago and headed out to explore the city.  We walked just a few steps from our Airbnb to see the Berlin Wall Memorial. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided East Berlin from West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Last year William and I…

For the last few days William and i have been exploring Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.   Prague has so many cathedrals and other buildings with spirals it  is nicknamed “the City of a Hundred Spires” and below you can certainly see why it gained that nickname Here are several shots of the Prague…

  WARNING:  This is not our normal fun travel photos.  It is our reverent pictorial essay of what happened at Auschwitz and I share it to remind us to never let this happen again. Today William and I traveled to the small town of Oswiecim Poland to visit Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz II or Birkenau….

Finally the rain has stopped.  It is still cold and windy but no rain makes site seeing so much better.  William and I headed out for a tour of Schönbrunn Palace which was the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers.  We thought it would be like Versailles but it was not.  It had its…

It was difficult to say good bye to Slovenia.  This has been our favorite country in Europe so far.  We just loved the view from our Slovenian home, Villa Sava. And as we left this morning we took a quick selfie in front of Villa Sava.  This selfie feature on our new camera is one…

Two years ago or longer when William and I first started planning our second back packing trip thru Europe I found Plitvice National Park in Croatia.  I have dreamed of walking the wooden pathway thru the lakes to see multitudes of waterfalls.   It seemed to me to be a Nature Lover’s paradise and I…

Our host Patricia told us to make sure we visited Lake Bohinj which was only about 20 miles away from Lake Bled .  She said in her opinion it is the true jewel of the area.  It is much less developed than Lake Bled and has fewer tourist.  The lake was gorgeous! On the drive…

My daughter Melissa had suggested that while in Slovenia that we should take the walking food tour of Ljubljana.  She had enjoyed the tour just last year and thought we might like it too.  We found this unique glass house for our overnight in Ljubljana.  It had a hot tub and as a really special…

Slovenia is one of the prettiest places I have visited in Europe so far.  I love the snow capped Julian Alps and the beautiful rivers and lakes.  Being a mountain girl from Virginia it felt like I was coming home just with bigger mountains and lots of snow. Our first stop was to visit Lake…

Located less than 20 miles from Salzburg, Austria there is this little town with breathtaking views.  While William and I were planning our trek across Eastern Europe I stumbled across this beauty.  Hallstat is one of the oldest still inhabited settlements in Europe and  a UNESCO heritage site. We found this really nice Bed and…