Stepping off the edge

Owlmother's adventures

Picking up where I left off… kinda

I started a blog called Stepping off the Edge when I left my comfortable middle class and middle age life in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and headed to Adelaide, Australia to return to school in 2012.

For 8 years I blogged about events in my life…family weddings, birth of grandkids, travel. I no longer own the email address associated with that blog so couldn’t continue, hence starting over in this space.

So I picked up where I left off with our trip in fall 2024 to Europe and will continue with India and the Maldives .

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  • Salzburg – beauty and music

    I have returned to Austria twice since my initial trip. However, I never did get up to the HonenSalzburg Fortress on top of the hill overlooking Salzburg until now. It’s the largest fully preserved castle in central Europe that was first built as a house in 900 AD and then continually added to by Archbishops Read more

  • The hills are alive

    Lotte drove us on a lovely, albeit grey, day trip out to the mountains and ‘sees’ or lakes of the region known as the Salzkammergut. She told us the history of the different spots we visited. First of all we stopped at St. Wolfgang, a picturesque village on the lake with beautifully painted hotels and Read more