Full disclosure: I’m writing this blog posts (and will write the next few as well) from my home office in South Carolina. Due to a rather slow internet connection in our hotel room that made it TORTURE to upload images, and a few other circumstances that I’ll talk about in this post, I never got […]

How do you know you are in the tourist zone of any European city? Pickpockets and tricksters abound. Well, I guess there are enough of them to compel someone to post this outside one of the major churches in the city. You also know by the number of horse-drawn carriages (or in Venice, gondolas) ferrying […]

After a full night of sleep, and fortified with a GREAT breakfast in the hotel dining room (there is nothing like a European breakfast buffet!), we grabbed an Uber into the center city and spent more than three blissful hours at the Albertina, an often-overlooked art museum about one block from the State Opera House […]

We made it! No thanks to Austrian Airlines, which gave us quite a few challenges on this trip (including a mix-up with our upgraded seat assignments — upgrades for which I had paid, mind you — and a three-hour delayed departure of our connecting flight from Chicago). But we are here in Vienna and spent […]