Trieste: A City on the Edge of Empires

Trieste is an Italian port city with a history with the Austrian Empire and a Roman past. Here are some amazing places to checkout. Citta Vecchai (Old Town) A mostly pedestrian zone filled with medieval houses on narrow and crooked streets and open to exploring. We will doing some walking around this area in our stop here. Arco Di Riccardo (The Arch of Riccardo) A…

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Dear Pre-School Class: Romans and Juliet

We went to Italy and saw an ancient amphitheater and Juliet’s house. First we went to Trento, Italy. I saw dinosaur bones and did experiments at the Science Museum of Trento. The pizza was awesome here. We went underground and I walked Roman streets at their Archeological Museum. The city also had my favorite way of traveling, a gondola to go to the top of…

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Exploring Around Dubrovnik

Islands that are only a ferry ride away surround Dubrovnik and they are worth exploring at your leisure. There are also nearby Dalmatian coast villages to checkout that you can reach using local transportation. Lokrum Located a short ferry ride away using Porporela, Dubrovnik’s Old Port. The ferry ride takes about 20 minutes and sails two or four times an hour. The island is 680…

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Verona: See Juliet’s Balcony and a Roman Amphitheater

Verona is known for its association to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the city also has a Roman amphitheater, fascinating bridges and historic churches. Casa di Giulietta (Juliet’s Balcony) in Verona If you ever read William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet then you are familiar with Romeo professing his love to Juliet at her balcony. In Verona you can see the recreated balcony at the former Dal…

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Dear Pre-School Class: Back to Vienna and Touring Prague

We did another big trip seeing Vienna and the onto Prague. We rode in the Vienna’s Giant Ferris Wheel. You can even have dinner in it. Then we went and toured a huge palace called the Schloss Schonbrunn. I got sprayed by this huge fountain called Hochstrahlbrunnen. Next, we went to Prague. Here we walked across this stone bridge with statues across it and it…

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Dear Pre-School Class: Seeing Berlin, Gottingen and a Huge Palace

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. Then we went up to a high hill and saw castle ruins. In the town there is this statue called the “Goose Girl” and she always has a full bouquet…

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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 to come for the holidays and surrounded by nature with waterfalls and canyons. L’Orrido Di Ponte Alto A deep canyon with waterfalls just outside of Trento, in the 1500s the…

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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 we took a gondola that started underground and went up to an Alpine zoo. We saw bighorn sheep, bears that came right up to the glass and fed the goats….

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