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11 Austria and Italy 2008 – August 25 – Venezia I

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Padova to Venezia Next day Monday, August 25 we rejected the option to remain here at Padova and keep riding to Venezia on train every day. We just drove remaining 30km to Venezia. Venezia is connected with mainland by a long plain bridge or connector. Several such connectors are going parallel to […]

10 Austria and Italy – August 23-24, 2008 – Overwhelmed

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Saturday, August 23 – Rifugio Alimonta (Gruppo di Brenta) Next day on Saturday, August 23 I opened my eyes at 6:40AM, and sun already appeared through the mountains. I climb down from my bunk and ventured outside to record this strange moon-like surface that we missed to photograph 4 year […]

09 August 22,2008 – Back to the Wild – Rifugio Alimonta (2580m)

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Friday, August 22 – From Molveno to Rifugio Alimonta Next morning on Friday, August 22 we were ready with provisions and maps. We were ready to start our ascend. We parked the car at the end of Via Rio Massò, packed our backpacks and started at 8:53AM. Our breakfast was […]

08 Austria and Italy – August 20-21, 2008 – Crossing the Alps

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Wednesday, August 20 – From Cortina d’Ampezzo to Barbian Next morning on Wednesday, August 20 we were in no hurry to leave. We soaked in the hot tub and took it slow. With great difficulties we found an obscure road toward our new destination – Bolzano. Apparently local people very rarely […]

07 August 19, 2008 – Crossing Into Italy – Cortina d’Ampezzo

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Tuesday August 19 – From Pfarrwerfen to Cortina d’Ampezzo Next day (Tuesday August 19) we would need to play catch up and reach Austria and Italy border. One large city on the way to Italy was Lienz. We arrived there around 1PM, had lunch, visited supermarket and away on our […]

06 Trip to Austria and Italy – August 18, 2008 – Ice Caves

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Monday, August 18 – Salzburg Next day on Monday, August 18 I turned on data on my iPhone, and we searched for Rent-a-Car places near Salzburg train station. It returned 4 places and two were non-existent. And it missed one place. But we’ve got a complete list from Tourist Office. Now, […]

05 Trip to Austria and Italy – August 17, 2008 – Salzburg

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Venture Outside Vienna Sunday, August 17, 2008 – Wien Next day – Sunday, August 17, 2008 we woke up well before alarm clock, and we were ready for breakfast at 7:50. Trains for Salzburg leaves every hour so we aimed at 9:40 train. We tried to use ancient elevator to […]

04 Trip to Austria and Italy – August 16, 2008 – Wien

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Saturday, August 16 – Wien Next day – Saturday, August 16 – we jumped out of bed at 9:30 and barely made it to the breakfast. We both took breakfast very seriously this time – the most important meal of the day, if you are planning to spent the rest […]

03 Trip to Austria and Italy – August 15, 2008 – Wien

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Friday, August 15 – Wien Next day, on Friday, August 15, we woke up in a perfect spirit. We slept for the first time on a new European schedule. Breakfast is included, so we ate cheeses and ham and boiled eggs, lots of coffee and tea, and diluted orange juice. […]

02 Trip to Austria and Italy – August 13-14 – First Steps in Wien

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Wednesday, August 13 – Flight to Vienna and Our First Steps On Wednesday, August 13 we took taxi to airport (about $53) and we are on the plane to Delta hub – Atlanta (3 hour flight). Then, we flew from Atlanta over Boston, over Canada, over Greenland, through Iceland to […]

01 European Trip 2008 to Austria and Italy – Preparations

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Some time in July 2008 we narrowed down myriad of travel choices to Vienna (Wien in German).
Vienna Walks – Salzburg – Linz – Cortina’d Ampezzio – Molveno – Verona -Padua – Venezia – Vienna

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EG-Series: Vacation 2008