For Christmas 2007, we traveled to Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria with our friends Wayne & Diane Shurtliff. The four of us have now traveled together in 20 countries.
Mick and Wayne awaiting one of our trains.
We have decided that Eurail passes are the best way to travel throughout Europe.
What would travel be without experiencing the local food. These were a Hungarian specialty; a pastry dough wrapped around a cylinder, the dough then flattened and cooked over a charcoal grill. After they were nice and brown, they were then dipped into a flavor of your choice - cinnamon, vanilla sugar, cocoa. 
We found that Budapest was a great place to celebrate Christmas. Father Christmas had already come - he comes there on 5 Dec - so the commercialism was over with. There were nativity scenes and Christmas booths everywhere. This picture is of a live nativity that took place every hour on the hour in front of the Parliment building--no concern here of separation of church and state. This live nativity was complete with live animals and gorgeous costumes.
On Christmas night, we enjoyed a Christmas dinner with Dora who lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is the Public Affairs person for Slovenia and Mick met her at their Public Affairs conferences in Frankfurt, Germany. 
How cold was it? Cold enough that sometimes we couldn't find Diane!
One of the benefits of traveling on Eurail passes is you can change your mind about where you want to go. At the last minute, we decided to travel to Salzburg, Austria, on our way to Vienna. Salzburg holds fond memories for Mick and I as this is where we met some years ago.
Still friends after another trip together.
(Overlooking Salzburg)
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