Regersburg Castle

Spent a fun day walking around Regersburg Castle, built a long time ago mainly to keep out the Turks. There was even a Falkoneering exhibition that we watched while the kids looked inside the castle.

Here are Romica and Nick - my how tall you are Romica!!!


The group looking at the moat

Open Air Museum in Austria

We visited an Open Air museum this week. This is a small village where they moved old buildings from other areas in Austria. Several homes, barns, wine press houses were there.

This one looks like it could be a Smurf house! Look how tiny it is compared to Nick!


Nick and Romica inside the barn. Look at the underside of the straw roof!

A view of the village

Visiting in Windish Minihof

We are visiting our Austrian relatives now in Windish Minihof, about 2 1/2 hours south of Vienna (5 minutes from Slovenia and 15 minutes from Hungary) It's a gorgeous area and the people are so welcoming that we don't want to leave!

Here we are with Ernst and Berta Spiegl in front of their home (in order: Nick, Krista, Grandma Ginny, Berta, Ernst). Ernst grows beautiful flowers that you can see in the background. Ernst is the nephew of my great-grandmother Anna Spiegel (she had an "e" in her last name but he does not)


We arrived on July 4th, so Kyrill shot off some Austrian bottle rockets to celebrate Independence Day!


More of my little friends!

Austria

We arrived in Vienna after a night-long train ride from Cologne/Amsterdam. We went to sleep in one country and woke up in another!

We had one day in Vienna to look around - not a lot of time, but we really wanted to have extra time with the relatives in Burgenland (south-eastern Austria)

Here is a photo of St. Stephen's cathedral.

And a personal favorite, here are Nick and Grandma Ginny coming out of the Opera Toilet. You pay 60 cents to go into the rest room and there is Handel music blasting!

Mama, Grandma and Nick in Amsterdam

Matthew gets to stay home with Dada, but the rest of us are having fun in Amsterdam!

On a canal cruise - this is one of many bridges that we passed under

One of the canal boats

Nick and Grandma Ginny standing next to the "I (am)sterdam" sign