Annecy, sometimes known as the Venice of the Alps, is a lovely town and best of all, no cruise ships in the canal ... actually the canal isn't big enough to host cruise ships. A good friend of mine was there last year and she sent me some photos, I wanted to see for myself, …
Month: Jul 2019
Munich, the start of it all …
After Salzburg I thought that I would gradually head across towards France, with ideas for Munich and Switzerland on the way. I had wanted to see Munich for several reasons, it was the site of the Olympics in 1972 when the Palestinian group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them …
Salzburg, zweiten teil …
And so back to Salzburg, a couple more days en route to, maybe, Munich, Geneve and elsewhere. Apart from a few set dates, I'm now going where the wind blows. This time I was in the modern Pension Elizabeth, not far from the hotel where I stayed first time, but a much better room, with …
The hills are alive with the sound of music …
When I decided to get out of Salzburg for a short trip, I wasn't aware that Mondsee was one of the locations for filming The Sound of Music. Nor did I know that there was a big cycling event on that weekend, or that my bed was quite that far from the town. So we …
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