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
Blickfang
Welcome to work
I’m a giant in these bathrooms!
s’Schloessle
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
Andrea & Kirk
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
Countryside
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
The courtyard
Inside the castle tower
View from Tina & Charly’s place
Rain-fueld waterfalls
The Milch Pilz in Bregenz (milk mushroom)
Welcome to Germany
Bathroom break
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)
A Fiaker
Breakfast with the Bogenspergers: Heidi, Tina, Charly, Sabine, Kirk, Andrea, Phillip, Rainer
On the road
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!
The 2er Bim
Crossing the Danube canal
THe Austrian Parliament, Vienna
Outside the Parliament
Naked man with horse
A happy couple
A mad woman
Ben Hur … female version
Weeeeee Ooooooh Weeeee Ooooooh…
Flying the flag
Taking the Bim (tram)
Perspective
Beer!
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)
Andrea & Kirk
Side door to trhe Burgtheater
Do not enter!
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
Fiaker horse
When the clock strikes… 1:35 pm
Two naked men
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
Look up!
Using the in-famous toilets at the Graben/Pestsaeule
Am Graben
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
Look up!
View from the top: looking north – Haas Haus, St. Peter’s, Spittelau
Looking west: State Opera, Wienerberg
Really?
Another Austrian beer: Goesser Maerzen
View from half-way
Back down: Kirk
Yumm.
Bier, Wuerstel mit Brot & Senf
Inside St. Stephen’s Cathedral
A side altar
Andrea’s favorite ice cream place: Zanoni & Zanoni
Checking us out
Schloss Belvedere (Prinz Eugen’s residence)
Schilderwald
Making our way through the Greek quarter
Ein Bier bitte!
Rules & Regulations & Exceptions
No entry!
More signs
Stop & Go
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
Step up!
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!
Pascale & Tina
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!
Lower Austria
The Alps start soon after leaving Vienna behind
Tunnel view
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)
Andrea & Kirk
Ben & Heidi
In the front seats
No U-turn
More tunnel vision
Looking back
Welcome to Donawitz, where Austria’s steel industry resides
Driving along through Donawitz
Church on a rock
Further into the mountains
Our van
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
Andrea & Dad
Down in the mine
Emergency & break area
Don’t get lost!
Men at work
Snapping a shot
Down we go
The girls are right there with them: Tina, Sabine, Andrea
The Erzberg
Full mountain & half mountain
Kirk the miner
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
Step by step
Surounding mountains
A live mine – and museum
Gotcha!
Another angle
Impressive
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
Along the road
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
Local homes
Windy roads – cars & rails
Crossing the tracks (in Bad Aussee)
Kiss, kiss
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
Local living
Dachsteinbahn (gondola), Valley station
Ready for a day of walking
Taking the gondola up the Dachstein mountain
Looking back
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
More ice.
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
Pretty
Cute
The Mammoth Cave
Named for its size, not the inhabitants
A river ran through it
Outside again
Getting the best shots
Natural Monument.
Everbody loves their animals …
World Cultural area Hallstatt
Looking down
Looking up and out
Tina & Charly
THe 5-Fingers viewing platform on top of the Dachstein mountain
Andrea walking (with) Ben
Mom & Dad
Majestic views
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
Hallstatt
Noooooooooooooooo.
Calm lake
Late summer scenery
It’s getting late
St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee, with the famous hotel “Weisses Roessl”
What’s Kirk doing?
Schafsbergalm
Welcome to the region of Salzkammergut (state of Salzburg)
And the city of Salzburg
Watch out for wires
Symmetry
Free Wi-Fi in the hotel lobby!
Who’s the faster texter .. or facebooker?
Oh $#!%!
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
Facades
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
Attack!
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
Not convinced
The castle courtyard
Enjoying the sun
Mom, dog & son
Andrea & Kirk
Water spout
Andrea & Ben
Ahhhhhhh!
Look up!
I’ve never even seen the movie. Ha! … The hills are alive!
Rainer getting a few Brez’n
Open a window
At the Pferdetraenke (horse watering hole)
Taking the view in
Not funny.
Gotta go?
That’s a long way.
Stift Melk
Crossing the Danube river in Melk
Looking up river
Ruine Aggstein
On the water
THe Big Red Chair.
The Wachau (ship) cruising along the Danube through the Wachau (region)
Vineyards along the river valley hillside
More ruins
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
Zonked!
Excited to be on our way
Checking out the balcony plants
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