EUROPE 2025

We spent two nights here. What a glorious place. We loved everything about it. Our hotel was right in the heart of it, close to the sights, shopping and the Christmas markets. The Christmas Markets were right around our hotel and we could not resist a walk through to look at all the lovely goods on display. There was a masked creature that was running around and making lots of noise, it came up to Sue and scared the crappers out of both of us. We later discovered they were ca

Our next port of call was the Austrian capital of Vienna. Vienna has some fabulous buildings and things to see. We did a bus tour to get an overview of the city, and stopped on the way and had a ride on the Giant Ferris wheel. It was built in 1897 and standing some 65 meters tall, gave us a terrific view over the city and the fairgrounds below. While meandering through the city centre we stumbled across Schonbrunn Palace and then a garden with hundreds of rose bushes that had