29 Aug 2010

Austria 2010: The Super Photo Gallery (376 Photos!)

by Kirk | posted in: Austria 2010 | 0

Here is the super giant photo gallery from our trip to Austria. Day 1-9. Click “Continue Reading” to see the whole gallery and just click the thumbnail in order to get a closer look. Enjoy!

Waiting for the taxi!

Last chance to bail out …

Sightseeing in Goetzis: Charly, Tina & Andi

When the clock strikes … 11:23 am

More rain … on Tina & Charly

Town hall gardens

Our old apartment

It’s raining …

Laendle architecture

Welcome to work

I’m a giant in these bathrooms!

Local houses in Goetzis

Trying to get a stamp when entering the county (again, in daylight)

The Seebuehne in Bregenz: set up for the opera Aida

Curious George … uhm … Kirk

Capturing Kirk’s attention: a Moped

A tourist at the Seebuehne

My name is Kirk, just Kirk

The Bogensperger home from back in 1991-93

My high school! (1990-95; BORG Feldkirch)

Best friends from high school: Tiara, Andrea, Christine with son Felix

Another local brewery: Frastanzer! A “Gold Spezial”

Ein Bier bitte! A Frastanzer s’Klenne

Another counrty to add to the list: Fuerstentum Liechtenstein

Welcome to the area

The duke’s castle in Vaduz, FL

Town center of Vaduz

Museum in Vaduz

Tiara and daughter Florentine

Christine & son Felix

Local architecture

Playing happy family (?) with borrowed kids

Leaving Liechtenstein after less than 30 min (we covered about 75% of the country)

Looking out over Feldkirch: Katzenturm, St. Josef (boarding school)

The royal couple

View from the castle

Inside the castle tower

View from Tina & Charly’s place

Rain-fueld waterfalls

The Milch Pilz in Bregenz (milk mushroom)

Welcome to Germany

On the German autobahn…. See the speed?

Welcome back to Austria

Lunch time – with another beer: Karlskrone Weissbier (German)

Ben is looking for food to fall under the table

Schloss Schoenbrunn – the Emperor’s summer palace

What’s he looking at?

Friday night with friends in Vienna … and a Brandauer Schlossbraeu Hausbier

At Brandauer’s Schlossbraeu in Hiezing (Vienna)

Beer grows on trees in Austria.

Next beer: a Zwettler

A different Zwettler beer (trueb)

First trip to Vienna!

Andrea’s condo in the city

Welcome to my home: Meidling (Vienna)

Breakfast with the Bogenspergers: Heidi, Tina, Charly, Sabine, Kirk, Andrea, Phillip, Rainer

Our driver (chauffeur)

All is cool with Phillip

The girls: Sabine, Tina, Mom, Andrea

My Ben (aka Wudi)

Haircut anyone?

Walking the city (2nd district)

Your name here!

Crossing the Danube canal

THe Austrian Parliament, Vienna

Outside the Parliament

Naked man with horse

Ben Hur … female version

Weeeeee Ooooooh Weeeee Ooooooh…

Flying the flag

Taking the Bim (tram)

Now that’s how you pour a beer (local brewery: Ottakringer Gold Fassl Pils)

When the clock strikes … 8:20 (not correct)

Rainer & Heidi at the Rathausplatz (City Hall)

Side door to trhe Burgtheater

Looking across the Volksgarten to the Museum of Natural History

A fountain in the park

Monuments and statues are all around the park

And funny people

Welcome to the office of the Austrian President (Heinz Fischer)

Approaching the Heldenplatz outside the Hofburg (winter palace)

Dressed man with horse

All hail Emperor Franz Josef I.

Pedestrians, watch out!

Kirk at the Parliament

When the clock strikes… 1:35 pm

Snapping some shots along the Ringstrasse

Atop the National Library (Hofburg)

All lined up for a kiss

Outside the Schatzkammer (Hofburg)

The official use of the crown jewels … me wearing them!

Roman ruins outside the Hofburg

At the Michaelerplatz outside the Hofburg palace

Strolling along the Kohlmarkt (on of the most expensive shopping streets in Vienna)

Mmmhh … Cake selection at the Konditorei Demel

Using the in-famous toilets at the Graben/Pestsaeule

She’ll lock you in! Besetzt …

St. Peter’s church

The dome of St. Peter’s church in Vienna

Celebrating the Dead

Pestsaeule (Monument for The Plague)

Welcome to the famous Cafe Hawelka

Stephansdom (St. Stephen’s Cathedral)

Ready to walk up the South Tower of St. Stephen’s

Sneak Peek of what’s more to come … stairs!

Tina & Sabine making their way up

The twis made it to the first stop

So have Charly & Tina

View from the top: looking north – Haas Haus, St. Peter’s, Spittelau

Looking west: State Opera, Wienerberg

Another Austrian beer: Goesser Maerzen

View from half-way

Back down: Kirk

Bier, Wuerstel mit Brot & Senf

Inside St. Stephen’s Cathedral

Andrea’s favorite ice cream place: Zanoni & Zanoni

Checking us out

Schloss Belvedere (Prinz Eugen’s residence)

Making our way through the Greek quarter

Ein Bier bitte!

Rules & Regulations & Exceptions

Another two naked men

Quiet time at city park

Thinking of you?

Andrea im Stadtpark

Half-naked woman

Johann Strauss, the king of waltz

Catching the U-Bahn from the city back out to the suburbs (Huetteldorf)

The Anker Uhr (at 4:45 pm)

Making our way through the Greek quarter

Streets getting narrower

Griechenbeisl & der liebe Augustin

Fuchs Villa, a Jugendstil museum

Phillip and his girlfriend Pascale

Wien Fluss am Stadtpark

Ben, ready for dinner

Charly, Tina, Johann, Andrea & Kirk

Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary, Rainer & Heidi!

Pose, point, shoot!

Looking out to the vinyards (Neustift am Walde, Vienna)

Another Austrian beer: Stiegl Heima(r)t

Later that night

It’s getting late

Stumbling down the steps after too much wine

View over the city at night, from Kahlenberg (looking south)

The tour group is ready for take off: Charly, Tina, Bine (front), Andi, Kirk, Pascale, Phillip, Heidi & Rainer (Ben is already …

The Bogensperger home in Gablitz

And the 2-car garage with extra room that comes with it

… in his cage in the back!)

Leaving my home town of Gablitz

Italy, Slovenia, Hungary … or staying in Austria? This way to either of these places!

The Alps start soon after leaving Vienna behind

Medieval ruins along the trip

Approaching the Semmering region (on the border of Lower Austria and Styria, 2 of the 9 states of Austria)

View (including a short piece of the famous railway)

In the front seats

More tunnel vision

Welcome to Donawitz, where Austria’s steel industry resides

Driving along through Donawitz

Church on a rock

Further into the mountains

Local beer: Goesser

Driving through small towns

And rural towns

Approaching Erzberg

Our first “sight”: the iron ore mine-turned-mseum in Erzberg

All suited up fro the tour “untertags” (below ground)

Charly & Tina are also ready to go

The girls are ready to work the mine

THis truck will take us on a tour a bit later

Down in the mine

Emergency & break area

Don’t get lost!

Snapping a shot

The girls are right there with them: Tina, Sabine, Andrea

Full mountain & half mountain

Leisurely work: spending time with the dog

Andrea & Phillip

The town of Erzberg

Looking down on Erzberg

The men are ready to leave the mine again: Kirk, Phillip, Rainer & Charly

The view from Hauly (the truck)

Pretty … impressive

Surounding mountains

A live mine – and museum

Windy roads leading towards the Nationalpark Gesaeuse

Water under the bridge

The river Enns runs through the Gesaeuse

Driver & photographer on duty: Rainer

All serious: Kirk

Welcome to the countryside

Our hotel in Liezen: Schnuderl

Taking the dog for a walk: Andrea & Ben

Kirk enjoying dinner

The fog is rolling in (actually, it’s clouds, pulling out)

Spectacular views

Churches are everywhere in Austria

Schiflugschanze Kulm

The Big Blue Jug

Windy roads – cars & rails

Crossing the tracks (in Bad Aussee)

Andrea & Kirk on the way through the mountains

Leaving Styria, entering Upper Austria

Phillip, Charly, Tina, Kirk, Andrea, Sabine, Ben, Heidi & Rainer

Welcome to the Dachstein Region, in the central mountains of Austria

Crossing the tracks again in Hallstatt

Dachsteinbahn (gondola), Valley station

Ready for a day of walking

Taking the gondola up the Dachstein mountain

On the way up to the first cave

View over the Hallstaetter See

Different view: Phillip, Sabine, Ben, Heidi, Rainer, Charly, Tina, Andrea & Kirk

Snapping away in the Ice Cave

A frozen Stalagmite

That’s why the call it the Ice Cave

In the ice cathedral

Looking down to some more ice

We’re way cool now: Kirk, Heidi, Rainer, Sabine, Phillip, Andrea, Ben, Charly, Tina

Looking down to the gondola station and te Hallstaetter See

The Mammoth Cave

Named for its size, not the inhabitants

A river ran through it

Getting the best shots

Natural Monument.

Everbody loves their animals …

World Cultural area Hallstatt

Looking up and out

THe 5-Fingers viewing platform on top of the Dachstein mountain

Andrea walking (with) Ben

The old gondola

Mountain side of the station

A view from the top

Cables leading to nowhere

The new gondola

Rainer & Sabine on the finger

Andrea & Kirk frame it up with Ben

Kirk sis a dog person (ok, walker) at heart

A beer to wrap up the day: es muss ein Stiegl sein

2-story bird house

Driving along the Hallstaetter See

And another one to wash down dinner: Prinzregent Luitpold Weissbier

Noooooooooooooooo.

Late summer scenery

It’s getting late

St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee, with the famous hotel “Weisses Roessl”

What’s Kirk doing?

Welcome to the region of Salzkammergut (state of Salzburg)

And the city of Salzburg

Watch out for wires

Free Wi-Fi in the hotel lobby!

Who’s the faster texter .. or facebooker?

Here is where Mozart was born way back when

Getreidegasse – the shopping mile in Salzburg

Getting accustomed to the Euro

Ready for breakfast

Driving through the city

Water down the drain?

Salzburg pedestrian area

Historic ATM (or not)

Residenzplatz in Salzburg

Inside the Salzburger Dom

Ready to conquer the fortress

Andrea at Festung Hohensalzburg

View from the top

THe cable car that brought us up here

Reaching for the door

Trying to fit through

View of historc Salzburg (Dom)

If you’ve been really bad. (Ur new TV chair … for guests)

If you’ve been a little bad…. or your father thinks you’ll be bad.

Erzherzog Rainer

When the clock strikes .. 10:22 am

The key to heaven

The castle courtyard

Enjoying the sun

I’ve never even seen the movie. Ha! … The hills are alive!

Rainer getting a few Brez’n

At the Pferdetraenke (horse watering hole)

Taking the view in

That’s a long way.

Crossing the Danube river in Melk

Looking up river

THe Big Red Chair.

The Wachau (ship) cruising along the Danube through the Wachau (region)

Vineyards along the river valley hillside

Schloss Grafenegg

Wachau, the “Napa Valley of Austria”

Czech Republic, Slovakia or Hungary .. or staying in Austria? This freeway will take you.

Looking for some wate

Approaching the airport Vienna Schwechat

Our flight from VIE to LHR

THe twins are ready to fly

Our only shot of Windsor Castle.

Ready to leave the UK

Excited to be on our way

Checking out the balcony plants

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