Austria - Italy - Germany - Paris

From Cesky Krumlov we drove 4 hours to Insbruck but as we were passing Salzburg in the afternoon, we decided to make a stop for a few hours:

Salzburg



Sophie practicing her walking in Mirabell Gardens


Sophie in Mirabell Gardens


Sophie at Motzarts house


More Mirabell gardens




We had spent all afternoon and evening in Salzburg. We love Salzburg, it was Chris and I's 3rd time there and it never gets old. We both commented we could easily live there, such a great city. We arrived in Innsbruck late at night. The next morning we took a few hours to check out Innsbruck before heading 1 hour south to Bolzano, Italy.

Sophie at the Golden Roof in Innsbruck



We also toured Max's tomb and cathedral but Chris posted pictures of that earlier so I'm not going to duplicate.

We got in to Bolzano in the afternoon and went to see the "IceMan" and walked around the main square.

Bolzano Cathedral


Bolzano Market


Next morning we headed up into the Italian Alps or the Dolomites, we rented bikes and rode around for a few hours taking in the views

Riding the gondola up to the Dolomites


Checking out the dolomites



"The Hills are alive!" oh wait that was Salzburg...








Our last day was spent in Munich, Sophie played in the Rezidenz gardens, we walked around Marienplatz and went to the transportation museum.

Munich near the Rezidenze (Royal Palace)


Having a Brat in the Beer Garden


Sophie in Marienplatz


Flying from Munich to Paris - Sophie and Dad liked to look out the window



Flying home from Paris to SLC - One tired girl

Prague

We had 4 nights and 3 full days in Prague, it was nice to stay in one place for a while and have a hotel close to everything so that I could take Sophie back to the hotel for naps.

View of Castle Hill


Sophie playing on Castle Hill

Changing of the guard at the castle


Sophie & Chris on Castle Hill




Old town square









Near the old town they had a fun market selling wooden toys, art, treats, produce, etc. We of course got Sophie a few new wooden toys.


Sophie on the Charles Bridge


Our last day in Prague we toured the Jewish Quarter

One of the Synagogues


The Jewish Cemetary - For more then 300 years this was the only spot Jews were allowed to bury their dead, there are over 12,000 headstones all piled on top of each other.



Sophie having a nap



Prague at night


From Prague we drove 2 hours south to a little town called Cesky Krumlov in the Czeck Republic. Here we just wandered the town and toured the castle.






View of the Castle in Cesky Krumlov


And that was our 4 day tour of the Czeck Republic. Now on to Austria for a day...

Germany

I'm getting way behind on the blog. So I'm jut going to throw up a bunch more pictures from our trip then move on.

From Strasbourg France, we drove about 2.5 hours to Rothenburg Germany, Rothenburg is a pedestrian/tourist friendly little town.





Sophie on the main square


Sophie & Chris at the crime & punishment museum

Chris & Sophie in the Kings Gardens in Rothenburg



That evening we took a walk on the medieval wall that surrounds the town.


Sophie fell asleep on our walk




The next day we drove on to Nurnburg where we toured the pedestrian center of town and went out to the Nazi documentation center, zeppelin field and rally grounds.

The rally grounds


View of congress hall and documentation center


Zeppelin Field



That was it for this leg of Germany, 2 whole days. We then drove 4 hours from Nurnburg to Prague. I'll post more on Prague later.