The tour of the Schonbrunn Palace doesn’t take a day. Half a day is good enough. The tour of the Palace takes about 2-3 hours depending on your level of interest in its history, and the gardens take another 1-2 hours. We went off for the tour immediately after an […]
You are in Vienna. Give yourself a good deal of time. Well, actually, loads of it. Hope you have packed a good pair of shoes that will ‘allow you to walk all day’? A few more things that you need to have — map of the city, bottle of water, […]
This is amusing. When we were drawing up our itinerary for our holiday in Austria this May, I did an image search on Google with the phrase, ‘beautiful Austria’. The laptop screen was instantly taken over by photos of verdant hills, wild flowers, a lake, a church’s tower overlooking the […]
Meadows, wild flowers, charming chalets, lofty trees, lakes, snow-capped Alps…these images of Austria had long enamourmed us and had implored us to plan an Austrian holiday. But bound by our self-set rule to not go back to the same region within 2 years (4 yrs ago we went to Switzerland […]
Food is an integral part of our travel experience. Where ever we go, we eat only local. Period. Never ever carried separate food even for our daughter, expect those intial two years when she was on baby food. Sri Lanka was no different. In fact, we had made major plans […]
