the palace!

"vienna waits for you"

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July 23rd 2006
not only from a great billy joel song, but also featured as a slogan on their tourism booklet. how cool is that? so yes- my group and i went to vienna this weekend. it was hot, we were sweaty and water cost us a small fortune. but of course more importantly, we had a wonderful time! we left friday morning- we took a train that left at 10:00 and was about 4.5 hours. we had a lot of fun on th ... read more

Europe » Czech Republic » Prague

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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