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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. To be updated

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By Katha Turbostern
August 18th 2008

The Junior and Ladies Challenge

Europe » Austria » Carinthia » Greifenburg

My B&B place
Pension Laber downtown Greifenburg

After a little more than one week at home doing some work and seeing my family and friends, I drove to Greifenburg on Tuesday to participate in the DHV Junior and Ladies Challenge. That is a competition for female and young male pilots (not older than 28) that is made up to introduce them to competition flying. I arrived in Greifenburg late on Tuesday night and met the other pilots on Wednesday morning. There was only one more girl, Tina, and three more boys, Jakob, Moritz, and Peter. Matthias, the organizer, had decided to fly in the comp as well, so [View Full Entry]

Launch looking straight to the Drau valley

By TomandLucy
August 18th 2008

Good morning, Good evening Good night Vienna

Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna

Der Rathaus at night

We arrived rather bleary eyed and confused at 6am into a deserted Vienna and managed to negotiate the u-Bahn to find our accommodation next to the imposing Rathaus. Vienna is a sensational city with imperious architecture which brings the former dominance of the Austrian empire into visual perspective. As the morning continued which watched as the city filled up with tourists from all over the globe. Everywhere we looked there were tour guides holding their umbrellas for the trail of bus loads of people. After a morning seeing the sights, the parliment, old town and St stephans cathedral we re [View Full Entry]

By bangers
August 17th 2008

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Europe » Austria » Salzburg State » Salzburg

Salzburg

A train ride without incident? What? Come on, what's going on? Your kiding arn't ya? No, no joke we got on the train. Sat down, rode to Salzburg and got off. Great. Now we just need to get bus number one to some stop and walk a bit to the hostel. The bus was easy enough to find. It was sitting in the depot waiting to leave. We walked up to the bus driver, one pack on our back and one on our stomach, fully loaded and ready to get to a place we could call home. "Can we get two [View Full Entry]

By AlexandraFrick
August 17th 2008

Gruppenfahrkarte (to Salzburg)

Europe » Austria » Salzburg State » Salzburg

Vienna 299
exhibit at the Belvedere

Friday, 8/15 After going out Thursday night, I came home and tried to sleep for the last portion of the night that I had left. For some reason, I was too anxious to sleep and felt like I was awake the whole night. I woke up early to make sure everything was packed for my trip. We had to meet at the Belvedere for another Dr. O tour at 10am. We took the streetcar over to the museum, and got our tickets and headed into the first exhibit. The first room we spent some time in was a display of a [View Full Entry]

By Giorgia
August 16th 2008

The Vienna trip

Europe » Austria » Vienna State

It is already three months now.. unbelievable! Still remember the moment I arrived in the airport of Bratislava completely exhausted after travelling the whole night from Southampton to London, coaches and then other coaches.. sleepy and tired.. until we got the plane that would get us to Bratislava. The first surspise upon putting my foot on the ground of Slovachia.. the cash point machine was broken and blocked my card! wonderful! About one hour wait until the problem was solved and my card was restored! And then, oh yes, another coach to Vienna! And here we are! At last! A wondeful [View Full Entry]

By Maddin
August 16th 2008

Hiking

Europe » Austria

Tauplitz 1

I've been hiking a lot the last days and therefore want to share some pictures with you (some of you might already know them ;-). 1.) From the 29th of July to the 31st of July I have been at the "Tauplitz" (which is in the "Steiermark") with friends. We stayed there 2 nights at an Alp-lodge and it was really great fun. 2.) On the 2nd of August I've been hiking at the "Semmering" with friends. It is really very beautiful there and seeing all the old train-buildings (about 150 years old) was really impressive. 3.) From the 13th of [View Full Entry]

By Bruce and Jac
August 15th 2008

Week 9 - Aug 10th-15th

Europe » Austria » Lower Austria

Turracher Lake
On the Karnten/Styria border at 1800m

In the morning we had a wander around the area before heading off again. We were travelling on minor roads which provide great scenery but can be very steep in places as you pass over the hills and through the valleys. Ferd worked at Hotel Hochschober at the ski resort area of Turracher Höhe on the border of Carinthia and Styria at 1800m. The last part of the road before we arrived had to be driven in first gear but Dobby, our faithful servant, kept his cool. We pulled up in front of this really flash hotel and, thanks to a [View Full Entry]

By DanMons
August 14th 2008

13th Aug - Salzburg

Europe » Austria » Salzburg State » Salzburg

Hellbrunn
The table in the middle - that sprays the water.

Today we packed up home, again, and decided to have a look through Innsbruck, since we were there anyway. Yip...well after the massive queue to get anywhere near the city centre we managed to make it, only to find a whole lot of boring concrete buildings, and parking buildings full, so we decided it wasn’t worth stopping for and carried on to Salzburg. We got to Salzburg just after lunch and set up camp. The office is closed during lunch (a semi-common thing around here it seems), so we had some lunch and headed into town. Austrian’s don’t seem to like [View Full Entry]

By DanMons
August 14th 2008

14th Aug - St Gilgen

Europe » Austria » Salzburg State » Salzburg

Sound of Music Church
where the Baron married Maria

Hello again from the camping ground Wolfgangsee in Lindendstrand, St Gilgen. This is our best camping ground yet - free HOT showers, cheap, heaps of room, sunny weather, and a lake to swim in right by the camping ground - all found by accident! We left Salzburg this morning and ending up in Mondsee. Here we got to see more exciting Sound of Music filming locations. We went to the Mondsee Cathedral where the wedding scene between Maria and the Baron was filmed in the movie. The Cathedral was very impressive inside with lots of statues and paintings and gold coloured [View Full Entry]

By Schaley
August 14th 2008

Austria 2

Europe » Austria » Tyrol » Innsbruck

austria 002

So daddy woke us up before we told him to again... and then I ate my banana! And then I relaxed while daddy and Cindy showered and stuff and then we went to get a little more to eat and then we went to do our laundry. At the laundry place there was this newspaper I was attempting to read and it seems like the Austrians have a problem with people collecting too many mushrooms and they need a license to collect them. Strangeness. Oh and speaking of that, I don't think I mentioned how we were watching some German TV [View Full Entry]

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