Blogs from Austria, Europe - page 242

Lindsay and I took our time making our way back to Austria from Northern Italy. We stopped off at a scenic lake for a sausage lunch (of course!) and got off the highway a few times to take the smaller roads. We arrived in Salzburg after about 4 hours of driving and checked into our hostel, the Institute St. Sebastian, which is a women’s religious student dorm during the school year, but rents out some of the rooms during the summer. They had lost our reservation because another person with the exact same name had checked into the hotel the night before using our reservation information. So, now we’re here for two nights instead of three (they didn’t have a room for the third night), but luckily we were able to add another night to ... read more

Austria (19th - 24th June, 2007) From Germany we continued our road trip driving across the boarder in to Austria. Innsbruck We were surrounded by mountains as we got closer to Innsbruck. Such beautiful countryside. Innsbruck is where Swarovski Crystal is made so we paid a visit to the museum called Kristallwelten. The museum was really well done however mum had great difficulty restraining herself in the shop at the end! There was one or two crystals brought home! And these small crystals are packed in huge boxes with loads of padding. Great for travelling! Of course it's all about the food and while in Innsbruck we sampled all the local delicacies including apple strudel, apple champagne and weiner schnitzel. Salzburg Move over Fraulien Maria! We made it to the land of The Sound of Music. ... read more

Okay, maybe that title was just a cheap excuse to use the word "Wiener." We arrived in Vienna on Friday after a short one hour train ride from Bratislava and found our way to Hostel Ruthensteiner. The hostel was great - really clean and bright and well-run, and best of all, they had washers and dryers. We spent our first morning/early afternoon in Vienna just doing laundry (first time we've had a dryer since we went home for Christmas!) and catching up on email. Later in the afternoon we ventured into the city and headed to the Kunsthistoriches Museum, which holds the Hapsburgs' collection of European art, as well as an Egyptian art section that we didn't have time to see. The museum was great, if a bit expensive. That night we walked around for ... read more

Bon bein finalement jme suis decide a partir mon blog....on vient de finir notre troisieme journee a Wien. Cest bien quand meme quon reste la 5 jours comme ca on peut prendre ca ultra-relax ...dans le genre sendormir dans un parc pendant 2 heures apres avoir bu une bonne pinte de biere autrichienne. Hier on est alle a la plage....bein la plage....c plutot une plage sur riviere...sur le danube....mais cetait quand mneme bien....excepte que voulant aller aux toilettes je me suis retrouve dans LE spot de nudisme intense hehe. bon bein je reecris surement de Grece! adios... read more

Take the train to Deutschlandsberg in the Southwestern part of Styria on Sunday. There is the opening of the regional wine festival taking place in the Castle (on top of a steep hill). The event is quite fun - the castle exhibits are open, free wine and food samples from the region, a lederhosen band, beautiful sunshine - and magnificient views of the Sulmtal (valley) which is described as the Tuscany of Styria. After the opening of the festival - the speeches go on about Styria´s two trademark food products - Schilcher (a rose wine) and Kernoel (pumpkin seed oil) - the latter is present in great quantity on all salads in the region and for sale at many farms in the region (there is obviously an oversupply) - we continue on our bicycles (without ... read more