Christmas Markets Galore! (and why we haven't posted in FOREVER!)
Wow, what terrible bloggers we are. I mean, almost 2 months since our last post. Why the gap? By way of apology, I will give a brief summation of what we've been up to and then post some pics and descriptions thereof, OK? I will hope that, after reading this, you will still click on the links when we post them on FB. I will try to post more stuff. Really. As a side note, I'm not going to identify our visitors as I have not gotten permission to do do (other than my kids, who don't care). Our first set of Christmas Market visitors arrived on Tuesday night, November 20th. I know, right? TWO MONTHS AGO! Anyway, we went into Munich one day with them and then we departed for a whirlwind journey of train rides. Thursday morning took us to Salzburg. We decided to go up to Festung Hohensalzburg (literally, "High Salzburg Fortress"). This 11th century castle has some amazing history as well as lovely views of the city. Salzburg at night from the Fortress. It has to