… to obtain the oversized (if not quite so grotesque) proportions that are familiar from Levens Hall. The Prater is, of course, to Vienna what the Bois de Boulogne is to Paris or Hyde Park is to London, but these are scarcely retreats, more recreation …
August 28, 2010
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July 26, 2010
Kiev Stag Nights
… and European airlines and there are other cities like Frankfurt and Munich in Germany or Milan in Italy with frequent flights. The distance is a little longer then to Central Europe stag destinations; so many groups are coming for three days to use …
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July 16, 2010
Reflections: World War II
… that the Almighty had his hand around my shoulder, or I wouldn’t be here,” says Carl Carlstrom, who served as a flight engineer aboard a B-17(G) Flying Fortress over the skies of Europe during the second world war.
As an enlistee in the …
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July 11, 2010
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June 30, 2010
Kidding With Kids
… tours for children.
More than 200 attractions, each offering adventures, await the children in the amusement park Wurstelprater in Vienna’s Prater. It has the Jungle Train with the chirping of tropical birds; the House of Mirrors, where Mom …
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June 10, 2010
Hello From Toronto – Part 5 – Novice Golf, Driving Through The Kawarthas, A Little Off-Road Mountain-Biking & Preparing To Say Goodbye
… how nine days can just fly by. Today my brother, sister-in-law and our two Austrian friends are scheduled to fly back to Graz, Austria, via Vienna. There has been an increasingly palpable sense of sentimentality in the air, in light of the fact that …
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