Teddy getting ready for the film

Imperial Vienna

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July 14th 2006
having mastered the trams, tubes and buses (maybe i shoulda payed attention in german class!!), we got to the Schonbrunn palace, and wow, its huge!! cant upload photos at the moment, but you'll get them when we can. lovely palace, used to be a summer hunting lodge for the habsburg family, and what a 'lodge' it is too. lovely gardens, and the biggest water garden feature you will ever see - Char ... read more

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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