About a month ago Ashley went down to the main opera hall to see about some cheap tickets. She was figuring that we might as well expose the kids to some high culture here in the heart of high-culture land, now that we have two balls in our dancing shoes and our composer of the month is about to change from Beethoven to Mozart. As she was in the process of purchasing some cheap seats (for 9 euros apiece) for Madame Butterfly, supposing it an appropriate beginner opera for the girls (and me too), she was offered an even better deal for a ballet. It seems that in a promotion to allow kids access to the ballet they offer some kid’s seats for 15 euros apiece. And knowing that kids don’t usually come alone, they offer accompanying adult tickets for only 7 euros apiece. The deal sealer is that they have kid’s seats in the front row of a box, with the parent’s seats just behind. Read more
We’re slowly figuring out Vienna: wine houses (heurigans), opera tickets, city views from cafe’s up on the hilltops, and ice skating. There is the best ice skating set up I have ever seen in front of the town hall (until mid-March) with 3 rinks and trails of ice between.
We’ve been in Vienna just about a month. We arrived to a terrific apartment. We are lucky to have met a friend in Seattle with an apartment to rent for exactly these 6 months (while they are in Seattle working for Microsoft). It’s near an old village, Grinzing, which has now been somewhat absorbed by the city as it bumps into the foothills that surround Vienna. We can jog into the city or up into the vineyards. Of course, the Viennese have strategically placed a wine house on the top of every hill with a good view. There are also lots of local wine houses, heurigans, in our part of town. Some are pretty touristy but we are slowly discovering the more authentic and cozy places. - Local Seattle Getaways on Technorati
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Bill Richards and Ashley Steel are the authors of "Family on the Loose: The Art of Traveling with Kids", from Rumble Books. The book is packed with bulleted lists of travel tips, fill-in pages for packing and journaling, ideas for inflight entertainment, strategies for browsing museums with kids, and much more. It is unlike other family travel books in that it is not about where to go. "Family on the Loose: The Art of Traveling with Kids" details how to make any family trip smarter and more fun!
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Bill and Ashley have two wonderful and well-traveled daughters. As a family, they’ve visited or lived in the USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Slovakia, England, Hungary, Slovenia, Denmark, The Netherlands, and The Czech Republic. They've traveled by discount airline, overnight train, crowded bus, rental car, and camper van. They’ve slept in fancy hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts, campgrounds, with friends or family, and in rented apartments. They have all carried backpacks, squeezed into one family backpack, rolled suitcases, and even traveled without so much as a toothbrush.
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