Austrian Roadside Memorial

A different kind of memorial and a much less ostentatious one was this shrine dedicated to a victim of a traffic accident. These are found all over the countryside in Germany and Austria. We've seen them in Greece too. So much more dignified than the helter skelter tributes littering our highways in the US.

Day Nine - Feldman Meets Veldman

December 28th 2007
Still living on the cheap we didn’t partake of the 9.50 Euro breakfast buffet. I was in a hurry to check on our van parked out on the street. The night before, the hotel clerk advised us to pay to park in the hotel lot, but seeing that others had parked on the street I figured “what the heck”. Once again we were lucky - no tickets, no tire boot and no dents or scratches. Once we ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more

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