Visiting Verona, Italy, hadn’t been in my plan. However, I was told that operas were performed there in summer. I had never been to an opera or Verona, so I thought that was the perfect reason to visit the city on my way back to Vienna. I had driven from La Spezia to Pisa to…
Julia’s time in Vienna was coming to an end, but there was still one thing left on our list before she flew home — the Christmas markets. Christmas in Vienna My favourite area in central Vienna is Stephansplatz (St Stephen’s Square), home to the Gothic St Stephen’s Cathedral and a large pedestrian mall. It was…
Hallstatt was fun. Where should we go next before Julia had to leave? We decided on Prague. Arriving in Prague I had visited Prague for the first time only a month earlier and loved it so much that I couldn’t wait to experience the city again with Julia. We only had one night, but with…
One photograph was all it took for my youngest daughter to pack a suitcase and fly to Vienna. After seeing a photo of me sitting on a giant block of ice at Dachstein Glacier, surrounded by the Austrian Alps, Julia decided she wanted to experience a white Christmas with me. We were decorating gingerbread cookies…
Good Morning Vienna Waking up to the sound of a rooster greeting the morning was my reminder that I was in Vienna. A curious black cat wandered in to see who was sleeping, then wandered out again. Upstairs, the fish swam to the front of the aquarium as I approached, and I stopped for a…
I had been travelling for a few days by the time we landed in Vienna, and when the captain announced our arrival, it felt surreal. The airport wasn’t the large international terminal I had been expecting, but something closer to a regional city airport. Quiet, manageable, and unexpectedly calm. My host had arranged for her…
Originally, I was planning to go on a yoga tour through France and Italy. It sounded perfect. After a few days in Paris, the 15-day tour would travel through the French Alps, stopping at several scenic villages for yoga sessions before crossing into the Italian Alps for more of the same. From there, we would…