Heading Home!
On New Year’s day we pried ourselves out of our suite at the Park Hyatt Vienna at 7:15am in order to get to the airport for our flight home. The…
Viennese Way of Life
Part of what made our visit to Vienna so wonderful is that Vienna is a place that enjoys life. The cafe society is alive and well here and people are…
Schönbrunn Palace
This will be the most disappointing post ever! While I’d like you to know that we visited the beautiful Schönbrunn Palace, we have no real photographic evidence because they strictly…
The Belvedere
The Belvedere was originally built as a summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy. He is revered in Austria as the man who drove the Turks from their occupation of…
Park Hyatt Vienna
Wow oh wow. We arrived at the hotel around 9:30p and checked into our beautiful Park View Suite. The hotel itself is located inside the former Austrian National Bank and…
Leaving Oman
What a terrific stop we had in Oman. We feel so fortunate to have experienced what we did and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend a trip there. Muscat is about 75…
Al Hajar Mountains
For day two of our guided tour of the interior of Oman we covered a circle that sort of mirrored our trip yesterday, but to the west. It looked like…
Sharqiya Sands
Months ago when we were planning this trip we knew that in Oman we wanted to get out of Muscat and see the interior. Oman is a surprisingly mountainous country…
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
We have three days in Oman. Day one we planned to tour the city itself as there are a few things to see here before we ventured out to the…