The journey home (17 Apr 2025)
It was time to leave. I took pot luck with my seat on the plane home and got lucky – I had a window seat far enough back that the wing wasn’t obscuring my view.…
Central Vienna (16 Apr 2025)
This was the day we visited the Mozart House, and revisited the Spanish Riding School. For variation we took a different way into Vienna by tram from Floridsdorf rather than by the U6 underground train.…
Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt (15 Apr 2025)
I really wanted to visit the Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt as it’s where Joseph Haydn spent much of his immensely productive working life. We went by train & coach, and simply booked the tickets at…
Central Vienna (14 Apr 2025)
We visited a lot of the attractions in central Vienna, starting with watching the morning practise at the Spanish Riding School. We enjoyed that so much we booked the stable tour a couple of days…
The Prater and Riesenrad, Vienna (13 Apr 2025)
The Prater amusement park and the very famous Riesenrad wheel were next. The park and wheel are famous in part as they were one of the locations for that wonderful film, The Third Man. I…
Heiligenstadt and Kahlenberg, Vienna (12 Apr 2025)
Heiligenstadt is where there is a Beethoven Museum. It’s also where he started coming to terms with his progressive deafness. We toured the museum but I didn’t take any photos there. Then we got a…
Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna (11 Apr 2025)
On our second day we visited the Schönbrunn Palace, making use of Vienna’s fabulous public transport network to get there. We visited all of it, including the rooms on the ground floor that Maria Theresa…
Peterskirche, Vienna (10 Apr 2025)
I visited Vienna with my friend Terri for a few days. On our first day there we stumbled across the Peterskirche, a magnificent, highest of high Baroque church. It was very hard to do it…
Mayar M253 and Driesh M218, Glen Clova (07 Apr 2025)
These were the first two Munros I attempted on returning to serious hill walking in 2023, and I only completed the first one – Mayar. By the time I reached the bottom of the climb…
Ben Chonzie M249 (03 Apr 2025)
Winter left very, very early in 2025, though an up-side was being able to go Munro-bagging earlier in the year than I expected. Ben Chonzie is often touted as an ‘easy for beginners’ Munro, and…