On our first full day in Salzburg, we went to mass at the cathedral and then took the funicular to the fortress that overlooks the city. The panorama below doesn’t do it justice. There was a 360 degree view of Salzburg. Definitely the best city view on the trip, especially with the freshly fallen snow. […]
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Our train arrived in Prague just before 7:30, which meant that we were walking to our hotel during the spectacular dawn light. I took a few photos of the National Museum and Wenceslas Square (named for a Polish king and national hero), which stands before it. Wenceslas Square is the heart of Prague’s tourist zone, […]
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My arrival in Warsaw was closely followed by my parents and sister, who flew from LAX through Moscow on a route that passed quite close to the North Pole. We spent the latter part of that day settling in. The rest of the family was really jet lagged. They’d traversed nine time zones, while I’d […]
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Two weeks ago, I traveled through the Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Here’s some overdue photos. The Baltic States seemed like a convenient destination to squeeze into the week before my parents and younger sister arrived in Poland. Three countries in seven days was a far too ambitious plan, even for me. I […]
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