My photo uploading system is testing my patience today. Thus some totally random and disorganized trip pics, beginning with this Bavarian farm scene near the hamlet of Baernzell, not far from Deggendorf on the Danube, with the great Bavarian Forest in the background (which is now part of a giant Czech-German wilderness park system). From hilltops here you can see the Czech Rep. (which I still call Czechoslovakia).
More pics below the fold. I'll try to get better organized soon.
Typical hamlet in the Austrian Wachau Velley, which is fortunate in its Riesling microclimate. The less-steep hillsides are all Riesling vineyards:
Some of the gardens of the Schonbrunn Palace (I don't do umlauts on this blog) in Vienna, a Hapsburg vacation house, just before the rain got going:
A light lunch on board our ship. The meat on the left is roast suckling pig. Yes, I do like applesauce - and mustard:
I said these pics were random. This is the view from Freud's office window in Vienna:
In a kids' clothing shop in Melk, Austria. Kids and some adults do wear lederhosen.
A Viennese coffee and Coke break for me and one of my wonderful daughters before entering the Belvedere Palace to see the Klimts, Kokoshkas, and the Egon Schieles which really knocked us out.
Our river boat tied up in tandem on the quay in Vienna, a quick walk and subway trip to Stephansplatz.
A small, isolated farm on the Danube in the Wachau Valley:
Another Wachau Valley hamlet. Churches with the onion-topped spires, which we think look more like garlic:
I think this was the Rathaus in Passau. Very cool place to visit, Passau. Austria, near the German border, where the Inn River joins the Danube. At that point, the Inn is a bigger river than the Danube.
A young Rook on garbage cans in Vienna. He must have read that Vienna was recently voted the most gracious and liveable city in the world. Easy to see why, even for a Rook.
