Plane view

Here, but exhausted

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December 30th 2015
It was a very, very long flight from Sydney to Vienna, with delayed flights, turbulent flights, and long stopovers, but we have made it! Neither of us are spectacular flyers. We hate it, really, so of course when they made the announcement at Sydney that our flight to Dubai was delayed by 45 minutes (it ended up being longer) for being stuck in maintenance, that worried us. Turns out (once we e ... read more

Europe » Austria » 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