Venice/Italy - 03/03/2015

While we stayed in South Tyrol we took the chance and drove to Venice and spent the day there....

It was the fulfillment of two dreams: To come back here one day (Wolfgang and me have been here in 2003 as a later honeymoon and simply loved this place) and to show this special beauty to the children.
They were fond of the idea, since we once read a children's book "Thief Lord" (German "Herr der Diebe") taking place in Venice, which they liked so very much, that they re-played the story for month....

We had the most wonderful day here and what Lena said, while we walked through the streets, over the bridges and driving by water bus expresses best how we all felt....

She said:" I wish there would be no need to blink my eyes, so that I could intake every single detail every single moment!

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Bozen South Tyrol/Itlay - 03/01-03/06/2015

It was a long trip south by car. The landscape changed and suddenly the mountain rang Alps lay in front of us. For the children the first time to see Europe's highest mountains and for us as well a compelling sight.

We stayed in South Tyrol's capital city Bozen and enjoyed the, at this time of the year rather calm medieval city center and the nature of the surrounding mountains with small villages a lot.

One morning we spent in the so called "Ötzi" museum, the South Tyrol archaeological museum. The exhibition explains a lot research results achieved after a 5300 years old mummy was found frozen on the mountains 20 years ago.

An other day we visited the Nature Museum South Tyrol, where we learned a lot about the geological development of the alps as well as the flora and fauna in this region.

During our stay in Bozen we perambulated several churches: The Marien Dom at the Walther Place in the center of the city, the Franziskaner Church and the Herz-Jesu Church. It was rather new for the children to see such elaborately decorated churches since there are more used to the sparse northern style....

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