Summer 1994
With a few days off from University we decided to head over to Salzburg and Vienna for a few days.
Vienna 1994
Salzburg 1994
Summer 1994
With a few days off from University we decided to head over to Salzburg and Vienna for a few days.
Strasbourg
Summer 1994
Strasbourg is another beautiful French city in the Alsace region in Northeastern France with culture and architecture blending German and French influences. It is famous for being the formal seat of the European Parliament and the Gothic Cathedral Notre Dame and its astronomical clock.
Colmar
Summer 1994
I love this quaint town of Colmar ! It’s an old town with cobblestone streets lined with half-timbered medieval and early Renaissance buildings. It is both French and German due to it’s location close to the German border and in the Alsace Lorraine region that has gone back and forth between Germany and France for hundreds of years.
St. Moritz
Summer 1994
St. Moritz is a luxury alpine resort town in Switzerland and one of the best winter sports regions in the world. It has been host to two Winter Olympic Games and five Alpine Ski World Championships and known as the winter playground for the rich and famous.
Reichenau
Summer 1994
I absolutely adore Reichenau! It is a short walk from Constance along the river that flows into the lake. It is an island in the river and connected to the mainland by a causeway. It is called the Blumeninsel or flower island because of the beautiful flowers all over the island, it is so colorful and gorgeous! It is famous for it’s Benedictine Abbey from the 8th century and the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Meersburg
Summer 1994
Meersburg is located a short boat ride across Lake Constance from Constance. The town is built on a steep vineyard right by the lake, has been a tourist attraction since the medieval times due to it’s castle, many museums and how beautiful it is.
Constance
Summer 1994
I studied German Literature at the Universitat Konstanz in 1994. It is a bustling University town right on Lake Constance or better known as the Bodensee. The lake shares the shore with Germany, Austria and Switzerland and a fabulous backdrop of the alps. Constance is one of the only big cities in Germany that was not destroyed in WWII because it is actually on the Swiss side of the river so it was too close to take a chance of bombing it.
Hallstatt
July 2001
HALLSTATT is the postcard perfect town that you always see of Austria. It’s just as beautiful in person.
The Bone House is pretty interesting. The graveyard here is so small that you are only buried for 16 years. Then you’re dig up and your family decorates the skulls and you go in the bone house! Then there’s room to bury more.
Our terrace over the lake.
I love this town, it’s so pretty!
Great place for a Stiegl
Vienna 2001
August 2001
Imperial Vienna is one of my favorite big cities! I could definitely live here. I love the opulence of the palace, the history of the monarchs and the empire, the architecture and the culture.
Karntnerstrasse is the pedestrian shopping street
It’s worth the climb to the top of the tower at Stefansdom!
Hard to believe that the ceiling was blown away in WWII and it looks like this now. They are pictures from the devastation on display in the cathedral.
I love the Opera House and the inside is so gorgeous in gold and red velvet. The tour is a must, especially to see how the backstage works!
Belvedere Palace is spectacular but my favorite Hapsburg palace is Schönbrunn with its 1,440 rooms! Painted in the ubiquitous Austrian Maria Theresa yellow, it rivals Versailles with its opulence.
