Neuschwanstein was King Ludwig II’s unfinished dream and the crown jewel of his legacy. The walls, painted from floor to ceiling with scenes from legends…
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Ludwig II has many names. Some call him “The Mad King”—he did manage to spend over 800 years of family fortune on building castles, on top…
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Beer drawn from wooden barrels, stone steins, a “Schmankerlgang” (delicatessen arcade) of food options, and communal seating in a traditional beer hall! Yes, that might…
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Of course one of my most pressing interests in every place we visit is the local cuisine. In Austria, there is Viennese cuisine, the only country…
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Vienna felt like Christmas ever since we arrived (pre-Thanksgiving). In our weeklong stay it only kept getting Christmas-ier and Christmas-ier. And I’m not complaining one…
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Happy Thanksgiving to all! We’re in Vienna, Austria now and surrounded by Christmas decor and Christmas Markets everywhere we look! But with families with strong Thanksgiving…
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John Lennon became a symbol of pacifism and a hero of sorts for young Czechs in the 1980s. After his assassination, an image of him…
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In 2002, a flood in Prague caused some streets to collapse into a series of unknown underground tunnels. And just like that, a for-reals alchemist laboratory…
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Yes. This is a church with real human bones. I first heard of the church constructed with human bones in the documentary Long Way Round, chronicling…
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While this isn’t as far north as Scotland goes, it’s as far as we explored in The Highlands (for now!). Just outside Aberfeldy is a Highland…
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