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		<title>Noisy Italians</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must be a magnet for talkers.
This summer, we were in Vienna and took an organized tour around the Baden, just outside the city.  Between the two of us, we know some French, German, Spanish, and, of course, English.  No Italian!  It&#8217;s not like I am a recluse or antisocial, well, a little, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=414&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting the Vienna Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in Vienna, we took a tour operated by Vienna Sightseeing Tours that&#8217;s called Vienna Woods.  This was a most interesting tour just outside of Vienna.  So on this tour, we visit an old hunting lodge, an abbey, and the largest subterranean lake in Europe.
In route to the old Mayerling hunting lodge, which is now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=383&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salzburg brandy &#8230; hmm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I like most about traveling is learning something new.  I always thought that the Austrians were known mostly for their beer.  I must say that I was a little indignant when asked for a local Austrian beer and the server brought me a Budweiser.  I thought what the hell!  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=416&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Dining Experience in Vienna</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever we travel, we always eat local food.  We even do this when we travel within the United States.  So, no restaurant chains for us &#8230; except Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but that&#8217;s a story for another day.
While in Vienna the the summer of 2008, as usual we eat at a variety of places, &#8220;mom and pop&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=407&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vienna night life &#8230; street performers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that we like most about most European cities is that they are walking friendly &#8230; not necessarily pedestrian friendly.  Some drivers are totally nuts, i.e., crazy!
Typically after dinner, we like to walk around.  Vienna was perfect for this &#8230; I still wonder how European women are able to walk on those cobblestone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=404&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the joys of being English speaking is that we can almost travel anywhere and expect to find the local people fluent to some extent in English.  The summer of 2008, we visited Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary and had not issues talking with people (well, actually we had a little communication problems, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=380&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My ugly American moment in Vienna</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To start, we had a wonderful time in Vienna July 2008 and made good use of Europe&#8217;s rail system.  Earlier during our stay in Vienna, we took the train from Vienna to Salzburg and back without incident.  It was efficient and comfortable.
Now, my ugly American moment.  A couple of days later, we were traveling by rail from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=379&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tour operators in Vienna</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/tour-operators-in-vienna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While on holiday in Vienna July 2008, we took a couple of tours, a city tour that included Schonbrunn Palace and a tour to the &#8220;Vienna Woods.&#8221;  Both tours were provided by Vienna Sightseeing Tours, but there were some differences between the two in terms of how personable the tour felt.

One thing that we liked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=370&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling by train in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During our Europe 2008 holiday, we used just about every form of transportation available &#8212; plane, train, and automobile.
We always travel by plane and automobile, but wanted to do something different this holiday, so we used the trains system to travel from city to city and country to country.  While it had been over 20 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=359&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My day trip to Salzburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things we like to do when we travel, especially internationally, is to take day trips outside the major city that we are visiting.  While Salzburg is a travel destination itself, when we were in Vienna, we visited the city for the day.  We took a train too &#8230; when in Europe travel the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=352&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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