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October 20th 2006
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View from the hotel room.
Our friendly Salzburg tour guide suggested we stop for the night in Milstatt - a small resort town on Milstattersee, a beautiful alpine lake. It was definitely slow season here as there were only a handful of accommodations and restaurants open. We can imagine it is a booming place in summertime though!

It was a treat to discover the town is home to the Stiftskirche, a Romanesque Benedictine Abbey founded in 1070. We found the church empty the next morning, except for an older lady who was tending to the flowers on the altar. As we sat contemplating the age of this place, an air-raid siren went off. We must have looked somewhat perplexed and unsure of what to do, so the lady attempted to explain to us the meaning of the siren in German. We think the gist of it was "don't worry, everything is fine" since she just went about her business.

On another note - we felt a little silly wondering what language was spoken in Austria. Turns out it's German with a really smooth accent, as opposed to the harsh Swiss-German accent, or the middle of the road High German. Also, for those wondering, we
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didn't have time to visit Thal, Arnold Schwarzenegger's hometown.
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In 2008, 2009 and 2010, we travelled mostly in the Caribbean, US, Canada and Hawaii. We were just too busy to post travelblogs, and Facebook has been easier to post pictures to, although not as good as this site. Hopefully we'll get back to posting our world travels to this site! We've returned from our Fall 2007 trip to Europe, visiting Switzerland, Côte d'Azur, and Italy. We've returned from our 2007 trip to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. As usual, we haven't completed all the posts, but will work on finishing them up. We've returned from our 2006-2007 four month around the world t... full info
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