Bregenz has a cable car that takes you to a peak that is part of the lower Alps. When we reached the top, this is what we saw.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Above Bregenz
Bregenz has a cable car that takes you to a peak that is part of the lower Alps. When we reached the top, this is what we saw.
Bregenz
The boat left us in Bregenz, a tiny town in Austria that more quaint and picturesque than anything Mark Twain could have described in Innocents Abroad.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Half-Timbered Houses
Our final stop on our trip was to Goettingen, a medieval town in central Germany. I was finally able to see excellent examples of half-timbered houses, a building style popular here which exposes the wood frame of the house. We even ate at a restaurant founded in 1500.
Two Faces of Germany
Weimar was the home of Goethe, Schiller, and the Bauhaus architecture movement. When the Nazis kicked out this school of revolutionary thinkers in order to begin their thousand year reich, they could have never imagined that Bauhaus is now the city's pride and joy. Weimar is an extraordinary city (I liked it as much as Heidelberg and Dresden) and should not be skipped if visiting Germany. What strikes me time and again is the richness of German culture and the horrible destruction it inflicted on itself between 1933 and 1945. Pictured above are Goethe and Schiller holding a sign that reads, "Art needs time, Comrade."
Abraham is an Austrian Last Name
Photo of an office supply store in Salzburg, Austria. Founded by Ludwig Abraham (brother of my grandfather Tibor Abraham) in 1950.
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