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Tyrolean Alps
The Tyrolean Alps of Austria

January 2nd 2023
Dear All Greetings, and a Happy New Year to all reading this! May it be filled with lots of new adventures and travels for the year ahead! I am writing another couple of blog entries to relate another mini trip I took over the Christmas holidays, this one after Christmas and around the New Year itself. After a lovely little time in the tiny principality and micro-state of Europe, Monaco, and the ... read more
Europe » Austria » Tyrol » Mieming

Austrian Flag 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
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1st March 2023

We saw those kind of markings in Germany
We saw those kind of markings in Germany. We then had no idea what it was or wha tit meant. We googled it and this is what we wrote in our blog when we posted a photo ot it: "Chalking the door. In some towns in Germany we noticed that people had written 20¤C+M+B+22, or slight variations thereof, on the doors to their homes. It turns out that this is a Christmas tradition among Roman Catholics and some other faiths."
1st March 2023

Well-Observed!!
Yay, well done Ake! You passed the test! I only took a picture of this and published it on here because I'd already seen them in your blog and first read about them there. It seems it's a tradition in Austria too. The monk explained that the letters stand for the Three Wise Men, or Magi. I believe they write them around Epiphany time. You found my "Easter Egg"! (If you've seen "Ready Player One") 😁

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