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What Paris has to offer                            When you walk down a street and see colorful macaroons in every other cafe, you know you have landed in France. Any child or adult could gawk at these pretty looking things, placed in different patterns, inside glass windows. Macaroons are often baked in edible rice paper placed on a baking tray and the word means "paste" in Italian, referring to the original almond paste used in them.                           In a bakery, when Baguettes and croissants are more common than English white or milk bread, you know you are in France. Crepes are quite widely found too and most cafes can quickly whip up a crepe for your child, with their favorite Nutella or strawberries or cheese.                           If you are asked to name ...

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It was a beautiful drive from Ilshofen to Prague. We drove up the mountains to the beautiful town of Praga and experienced our first rain (in Europe) there. Few things that we noticed in Prague: Heavy traffic on a Friday evening. Never plan to go to popular pubs or restaurants for dinner, without a reservation! The locals speak Czech. However, most of them know English, which made it fairly easy to get around. The Czech are the largest consumers of beer in the world.  The Czech girls are very pretty.   The accepted currency is “Korunas” and not Euros. At every nook and corner of the tourist streets, there is a forex shop with a board in front that would say CHANGE. There are plenty  of such shops with different conversion rates, we always have the choice of going with the best rate. The only thing to watch out for is “commission”, as some shops charge a small fee as commission. Prague was indeed a place for beer lovers. It appeared as though beer was...

Salzburg is an Austrian city in the border of Germany, with views of the Eastern Alps. It is the birthplace of Mozart and the movie, Sound of Music, was shot here. It is a beautiful city surrounded by mountains. During the city drive, we saw some workers placing a plastic sheet on the road. Apparently, they do it right after the road is tarred, so that it does not get damaged, even if people walk over the road. This was something that we miss back in our country, where most roads get spoilt and have ditches because people drive or walk over it, while the tar is still fresh. We met a cousin, who had flown in from the UK. Autumn is Salzburg was captured in the photograph below. Our itinerary included the Hallein Salt mines, the Trick fountains in the Hellbrunn palace and the Salzburg zoo. Hallein Salt mines (Salz Welten) Our friends who were our travel mates, told us that this is the most interesting spot in Salzburg and should not be missed. And oh boy, was that true! We w...