Had a great day in Vienna. Wonderful architecture, great food and some culture. After getting up very early in Prague and a 4 hour train ride we arrived in Vienna in time for lunch, which included Apple strudel and Sacher Torte. We took a trip out to the very excessive summer palace (Schonbrunn), fantastic gardens. In the evening we went to a Concert at the Hofburg Orchestra, a mix of music and opera, very good. We then went to the Sacher Cafe and had Sacher ...

The reason we are in Prague is because Christopher it's touring with the Boston Children's Chorus (BCC) to Prague and Berlin. They are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war and the liberation of the concentration camps. It is a collaboration with the Terezin Foundation, to promote understanding of the terrible events of war and the holocaust. Terezin was a small town outside Prague, in 1941 all the residents were expelled and the N...

What a great day in a great city. We have an AirBnB apartment in the old town right by the Charles Bridge. We arrived late last night and had a quick walk around and some good Czech food (goulash, beef in cream sauce, smoked pork dumplings) and a Pilsner. Had a coffee and a pastry (spiral 'chimney' cake, cooked on the side of the road, apparently the locals don't eat them so will call the tourist cakes from now on). We climbed the Old Town Charles Bridge Tower f...

We were scheduled for a 6 hour lay over in Heathrow, not quite quite long enough to go into town, then we got a big tail wind, arrived an hour early, now we were faced with 7+ hours in the terminal. the one time wedidnt need to be early, here we are way early. So we made a break for it: 3 stops on the Tube to Hounslow Central. A bustling London neighborhood, known for the best Indian food anywhere. It now has Italian coffee shops, a street market with Thai, Jamai...

We are heading out on a grand tour of Europe, Prague, Vienna, Budapest and Berlin, and Scotland, England and probably a day trip to Wales. I was in Berlin 25 years ago, a few months after the Berlin Wall "came down" - it's in quotes because the wall was very much their and still the border between East and West Germany. People were allowed to cross and the East started to open up. People on the West side were chipping pieces off the wall with hammers that were le...