Listen to this story as a podcast here. Carnival is finally over. This is a blessing not because I don’t like Carnival, I do. I’ve enjoyed the kitchy television variety shows and the sound of parade music wafting across the Enns valley. Yesterday in the Spar, the staff were costumed as cats, ears and whiskers …
We had several other choices for Fasching (Carneval) parades. Grobming, Liezen, Wiessenbach, but we opted for Mitterndorf. It’s close, it’s quite traditional, and the village is rather pretty. We arrived a little after two and learned that the parade was starting at a gasthaus 1.5k up the road and would arrive when they arrived, not …
Also now online, photos of our travels in Germany.
We would only have a few hours in town. We went to Venice anyway.
I’m just going to go ahead and say it and risk sounding like a tiresome dilettante. I have done a lot of traveling. And there are a few places I have been that have taken my breath away. I have been trying to think of them as a means of comparison: The hotel in India …
There was no night train from to Venice. That was the first wrench in the works. There was a day train that leaves quite early, arriving in Venice around noon. The train that goes back to Austria, the second leg of our planned trip, leaving Venice at quarter to three. If we’d accepted this plan, …