Background: Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria's status remained unclear for a decade. A State Treaty signed in 1955 ended the occupation, recognized Austria's independence, and forbade unification with Germany. A constitutional law that same year declared the country's "perpetual neutrality" as a condition for Soviet military withdrawal. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 and Austria's entry into the European Union in 1995, some Austrians have called into question this neutrality. A prosperous, democratic country, Austria entered the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999.
May 15th 2008Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna Well her I am in sunny Vienna! It is Thursday 15th May now so I am on my last evening here. Unable to add any photos from this computer but hey it's free!!
Arrived from Luton on my second Easyjet ... [full story]
May 10th 2008Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna Lets throw another shrimp on the barbie. wait im in austria. sort of a stop over on the way to budapest. i got to have some vienna sauage, and relly good chocolate cake. i saw the sights on an imp ... [full story]
May 10th 2008Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna Last night we arrived at the apartment after 10:30pm, greeted by the receptionist at the time who, thankfully, spoke English. The apartment is huge - the largest by far we've stayed in so far. The onl ... [full story]
May 10th 2008Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna Enroute to Zagreb we find ourselves in the business-class lounge in Vienna airport waiting for our flight to Zagreb and I could not pass the opportunity to use the free access to the internet even tho ... [full story]
May 4th 2008Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna Okay,... slightly less rushed post here. Please excuse the Z and Y transpositions, but they are reversed on the keyboard, so I sometimes mess up. Have just completed a whirlwind tour of Amsterdam (d ... [full story]
May 3rd 2008Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna Greetings!
Can't think and type fast enough to make use of this internet connection,... so more later when I am at a less frentic pace. ... [full story]
April 26th 2008Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna
We arrived in Vienna late on a Thursday afternoon and after settling into our hotel we headed out for some dinner. We stumbled upon a Russian restaurant in the backstreets near the hotel and decid ... 45 photos[full story]
April 26th 2008Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna We made it to Vienna, the bus trip was fine, probably the most comfortable long distance trip we have done. Jess and I completed the whole X-Men Trilogy on DVD (on my I-Pod) and spent a lot of time ea ... [full story]
August 18th 2007Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna I love vienna.. I didn't think I would, but I think it's a very underrated place. I've been fortunate enough to have been to vienna twice, the first time was to visit my friend stephanie. I wanted ... 11 photos[full story]
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