The Journey Day by Day

  • Salzburg, Tuesday, June 1, 1909

    Another month has passed and again we have to pack up to move on, but before going we decided that we must see that grand old stronghold of the Archbishops of long ago, the Hohen-Salzburg. A cable R.R. ascending at a gradient of 58% took us up and through the wall of the fortress by…

  • Wien [Vienna], June 2, 1909

    My dear Boy: We arrived early this morning and were welcomed in the breakfast room by Aunt Kinski. She took us to the Stephens Kirche or Cathedral, the most important edifice in Vienna. The west facade with the beautiful Riesenter (or Giants door) was erected in 1230 in the old Romanesque style. Other parts and…

  • Wien, June 3, 1909

    At 10 o’clock, Tante Kinski called with her cousin Fritsch’s daughter, Rosa, a pretty “Wiener Kind” of 24 years, and she and Emily went downtown “shopping.” Tanta Kinski advised us to go to an Exposition of articles in memory of the battle of Aspern 1809 in which Erzherzog Karl gained a victory over Napoleon, the…