Tuesday, 6 October 2009
The Netherlands
To Holland we go.... We went to stay with Pauls family close to Nijmegen. We also visited Leiden and Delft all very beautiful. We went into the windmill called De Valk in Leiden which was very interesting.
Germany
In Germany we visited Bamberg, Nuremburg, Frankfurt am Main and Cologne. Here are some pics...
Inside the Cologne Cathedral.
Cologne Cathedral.
Inside the Cologne Cathedral.
Cologne Cathedral.
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Czech Republic
So I follow my normal theme of saying that (perhaps not the Czech Republic) but Prague was amazing. Driving through Czech Republic was a bit like driving through South Auckland and down into Hamilton (with the focus on South Auckland), nothing too bad with that just nothing overly fantastic. We took a walk to Prague castle, had lunch in the park besides the river, walked over the very busy Charles bridge which has 30 statues on it and then walked through the town to Wenceslas Square.
Austria
Austria is simply stunning. One of the best countries that we visited on our van trip. We visited Graz, Hohe tauern national park, Werfen ice cave, Hallstatt and Salzburg.
Hallstatt, with a population of just 1150 and evidence of human settlement 4500 years ago, this is a stunning lake side village.
This is the Beinhaus in Hallstatt, the last skull was added in 1995.
Our new chess set that we got in Greece.
Salzburg.
The formal gardens of Salzburg.
Werfen at the worlds largest accessible ice cave. It really was massive and we only walked 1km into the first part of the cave!
Almost at the cave...
Hohe tauern national park. Our luck as soon as we entered the park the clouds rolled in. 5min after this pic we couldn't see a thing.
Graz. Such a great place.
On the way down 260 steps of castle hill.
A very windy view of Graz.
The medieval clock tower.
The Kunsthaus Graz, weird looking building.
Hallstatt, with a population of just 1150 and evidence of human settlement 4500 years ago, this is a stunning lake side village.
This is the Beinhaus in Hallstatt, the last skull was added in 1995.
Our new chess set that we got in Greece.
Salzburg.
The formal gardens of Salzburg.
Werfen at the worlds largest accessible ice cave. It really was massive and we only walked 1km into the first part of the cave!
Almost at the cave...
Hohe tauern national park. Our luck as soon as we entered the park the clouds rolled in. 5min after this pic we couldn't see a thing.
Graz. Such a great place.
On the way down 260 steps of castle hill.
A very windy view of Graz.
The medieval clock tower.
The Kunsthaus Graz, weird looking building.
Slovenia
We visited Bled in Slovenia. The lake was very beautiful as was the walk around it. In the small town we ate Belds speciality kremna snezna rezina which is vanilla custard topped with cream and sandwiched between pastry, very nice.
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