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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lemme Caution, post: 2906525, member: 90575&quot;]Sounds like you had a wonderful journey. I hope you were able to ride the one-of-a-kind tiny &quot;straddle/sit-on train&quot; through the salt mines, wearing the white coveralls to protect your clothing from the salt dust. By the way, the Riesenrad (Giant Wheel) had twice as many of those mini-streetcars that serve as its gondolas prior to WWII; they just never put the other half of them back after the war. It&#039;s an impressive ride, especially when you get to top and you can look out over all of Vienna. My Austrian Opa (Grandfather), who had been an Austro-Hungarian Dragoon (cavalryman) in WWI on the Russian Front and then spent five years in captivity in Siberia before finally escaping and making his way via Trans-Siberian Railroad back to Vienna to eventually become a career-long policeman, regularly took me to the Prater, the Vienna Woods, and to the Schoenbrunn Palace parks to stroll the beautifully manicured grounds and feed the friendly squirrels. Those are wonder days that are forever etched in my very fondest memories. This year happens to be the fiftieth anniversary of his passing, and I still miss him to this day and think of him all the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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