Ready to Go!

Anticipation

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August 28th 2008
Less than one week to go. To go to what? My Solo Traveling with Training Wheels. Vienna, Prague, Krakow, Budapest, with some intriguing stops in between. With training wheels, because partly on my own and partly with a very small tour group. Lots of naysayers and warnings received from well-meaning friends and relatives. But, I'm going anyway and I will keep going anyway until I can't ge ... read more

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more