Last week we went to Berlin, Gottingen and saw what my dad called the palace of Schloss Nymphenburg. We headed to Gottingen where papa had work. We went out on paddleboats on a big lake….
Date Archives May 2019
Best of Trento
Trento is city of Renaissance fountains, towering mountains and apple strudel, due to it being once part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. It is located in northern Italy in the Alps with palaces where bishops used…
Medieval Brilliance and Island Palace: Innsbruck, Chiemsee and Rothenburg
Dear Pre-School Class: My dad’s took me back to Austria. We rode a double decker bus across some high mountain passes of the Alps on the way. It was a long way down. In Innsbruck…
Split: A Walk through An Emperor’s Palace
The old part of Split is tucked away in the ruins of a Roman palace and we’ll be exploring the city for a bit. We will leave here on a ferryboat bound for our last…
Dear Pre-School Class: Seeing Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest
We took a trip to see Vienna with its Gothic churches, Budapest, ‘the Paris of the East’ and Bratislava with its futuristic bridge and medieval old town. First we went to Vienna and saw the…
Dubrovnik: More Than A Kings Landing
I’m a big “Game of Thrones” fans so when my husband had a conference in Dubrovnik where they film the series, I was definitely coming along. More than being a setting for this HBO fantasy…
Dear Pre-School Class: Zeppelins and Waterfalls
We headed to the big Swiss city of Zurich and took a short funicular up to see over the city on the lake. I went to a restaurant that put cheese on everything, yummy. Lucerne…
Rovinj: Amazing Venetian Village in Croatia
Rovinj is a picturesque former Venetian village on a hill in the blue waters of the Adriatic Sea that we hope to spend a day at while we’re in Croatia. Its red-shingled houses surround the…
Dear Pre-School Class: Gondolas, Treasure and Bears
My dad’s took me off on another adventure this time to Liechtenstein, an actual kingdom, yet we first had to drive through Switzerland. We took a car ferry across Lake Constance on the way. You…