We're Lindsey and James. Welcome to our Rick Steves tour digital diary!
19 days, 8 cities, 4 countries, and countless memories
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Join us as we travel through Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Slovakia! In May 2023, we took our first Rick Steves tour, "Best of Berlin, Prague, and Vienna in 12 Days". Our total trip was 19 days, as we planned extra activities before and after the tour, including a day-trip to Bratislava, Slovakia. With a good mix of structured tour time and free time, we were able to cover a lot of ground (literally: we walked over 100 miles!).
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Please enjoy our scrapbook, which highlights both our Rick Steves tour and our free time. We hope you'll find inspiration, education, and joy here. We also include some practical travel tips (some of which we followed and others we wish we had followed) that will, we hope, make your own travels as effortless and memorable as ours.
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As an academic, Lindsey couldn't help but make the site educational, but you are welcome to just enjoy the pretty pictures if you aren't in the mood to learn.
Guten Tag, Dobry den, and Grüss Gott!
Now you know how to say "hello" in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Austria! I'm Lindsey, a North Carolina sociologist who loves learning about new cultures. I wanted to visit Germany and Austria because I've been studying German for over a year and was eager to put my skills to the test. As for the Czech Republic, I've been to Prague before for an academic conference. I was excited to return as a tourist.
Hello, I'm James.
I am an IT professional and I make visual art instruments. I had been planning on attending the synthesizer convention Superbooth in Berlin a few years ago, but the pandemic put all travel plans on hold. When we saw the timing of a Rick Steves tour, which started right after Superbooth and ended a few days before my favorite band was playing an hour from Vienna, we decided to go big and have an epic adventure.