Austria-Switzerland

: Austria Rolling Hills Before Lower Alps

: Austria Quaint Village of Kindberg nestled in the mountains of the lower Alps

: Kindberg Home & Store Front

: View of Murals that adorn many of the buildings in Kindberg

: Kindberg Cafe

: Austria Vienna’s Ringstrasse replaced the wall that surrounded the city, was built by Emperor Franz Josef, completed in 1865

: Vienna Street

: Vienna State Opera House

: Vienna Trolley

: Vienna Street

: Vienna Sight Seeing

: Vienna Old Historical Plaza

: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Memorial in Vienna

: Johann Strauss Memorial in Vienna

: Austria Schonbrunn Palace Entrance – Palace originally dates back to 1559. Was built to rival France’s Versaille

: Schonbrunn Palace Gardens View inside the entrance showing the front of the Palace

: Schonbrunn View from the back of the Palace

: Austria Schonbrunn Palace Gardens

: Switzerland Lucerne Taken from Boat Trip on the Lake

: Switzerland Lucerne from the Lake

: Home on the Lake Lucerne

: Lake Lucerne Home

: Lucerne View from the Lake

: Lucerne’s Reus River

: Lucerne Shopping District

: Lion Monument carved in Lucerne cliff in 1821 in honor of 700 Swiss Palace Guards massacred in Paris in 1792 by French Revolutionaries when Louis XVI ordered them to lay down their arms

: Lucerne Hotel & Riverfront Shopping

: Lucerne’s Jesuit Church, one of the most beautiful Baroque Churches built in 1677

: Lucerne’s Kapelbrucke (Chapel) Bridge built in 1333. The Wasserturm (octagonal Water Tower) is a fortification from the 13th Century

: Lucerne’s Bridge across the Reus River to steps leading to Old Town

: Lucerne Old Town

: Old Town Courtyard

: Lucerne Old Town

: Lucerne View of the Kapelbrucke (Chapel) Bridge from the other side

: Lucerne View of Reus River & Buildings on it

: Lucerne Spreuerbrucke (Mill) Bridge Built 1408. Has Medieval Style Plague Paintings titled Dance of Death on it.

: Lucerne Building along the Reus River

: Gondolas taken first from Lucerne to Board Cable Car to top of Mt Pilatus

: Switzerland Lower Alps Home taken from the Gondola to Mt Pilatus

: Lower Alps View of a Resort taken from the Gondola to board Cable Car to Mt Pilatus

: Lake Lucerne View from Mt Pilatus Cable Car

: Alps View of top of Mt Pilatus. Unfortunately it was early September & there wasn’t any snow

: Alps & Mt Pilatus View – No Snow but lots of fog rolling in and light rain

: Alps View as we were descending from Mt Pilatus

: Mt Pilatus Rack Railway Car on the way down to Lucerne

: Alps Mt Pilatus Rack Railway

: Alps Cows with their “Cow” bells so they can follow each other down in bad weather

: Lake Lucerne View taken from the Rack Railway Car descending Mt Pilatus

: Lucerne & Lake View as we descended from Mt Pilatus

: Mt Pilatus Gear for Rack Railway Car