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14 Trip to Austria and Italy – August 29 – Back to Boston

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Friday, August 29 – Wien Next day on Friday, August 29 we had only one item on our to-do list. We wanted to buy special local treat for our coworkers back in Boston. We easily accomplished this in a local supermarket for 2.89€ per one bag of Mozart Balls. […]

13 Trip to Austria and Italy – August 28 – Back to Wien

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Thursday, August 28 – Graz Next day on Thursday, August 28 we depart from Graz for Vienna around 10AM. Roads in Austria are toll free, but if you use highways, you have to purchase passenger-car vignette. We already had this sticker attached to the inside of the front windshield, because […]

12 Trip to Austria and Italy – August 26-27 – Venezia II

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Tuesday, August 26 – Venezia Next day Tuesday, August 26 we planned our day tour in opposite direction. From our hotel across the Ponte Scalzi towards universities, academies and through Ponte de l’Academia to see Piazza San Macro and see how far we can advance in a hot Italian August […]

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 […]

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