http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Austria en-us Tue, 13 May 2008 21:00:23 BST Tue, 13 May 2008 21:00:23 BST Staying in a youth hostel is sometimes the most wonderful way of travelling mostly because of the people you meet. Schwedenhaus The Swedish House in Innsbruck is of the nicer kind. Right on the river Inn at the foot of the mountains. Wonderful. I'm stuffed in to a room with one Italian guy and one German dude.The Italian speaks very little English. With a mix of ItalianSpanishEnglish I am a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Innsbruck/blog-275467.html Morning http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-275222.html ... so about midday on Wednesday we breathlessly arrived in Vienna. Accidentally landed in a quite flash hotel due to the assistance of the grumpiest man in Austria at the airport info desk. PS Vienna airport is full of unattended luggage including a poor little cat in a cage that had a very big day. Discovered an excellent oldschool giant ferris wheel did an obligatory bus tour and ate http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-275127.html 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 impromtu journey. i just went out for breakfast so i didnt bring my camera and took the metro to city centre. i had a really nice breakfast and on the way home met avery nice local and ended up talki http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-275126.html Last night we arrived at the apartment after 1030pm 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 only downside so far is that the reception is rarely manned and when we did contact someone this morning to ask about washing they couldn't speak a word of English.I've been trying to find an EnglishG http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-274954.html Enroute to Zagreb we find ourselves in the businessclass 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 though I have nothing really special to say. Hit by an immediate culture shock of getting something without having to pay backsheesh and a fleeting hesitation to help myself to the free champagne it fin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-274787.html This morning we woke to get an early start on the day and I wanted eggs for breakfast today I missed out on them yesterday. My foot felt the same as yesterday which wasn't encouraging.The plan was for me to stay in our room until checkout at 1130am and then catch the bus into the city to meet Karina then we'd come back at 4pm to collect our bags and catch the train to Vienna. However afte http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-274704.html Last night we arrived in Salzburg after 10pm and caught a taxi straight to our hotel. We picked the key up from the hotel restaurant and went straight up to our room wow The room is huge larger than our apartment in Paris and more roomy than our NY apartment We crashed immediately.We woke this morning to spectacular weather and a snowcapped alpine vista out our window. The only problem was http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-274439.html Awesome city It's small... maybe a bit bigger than Regina. Love the pedestrianfriendliness of it too. Here's some photos from the last couple days. Picture worth 1000 words and all plus it really slows me down typing on this silly German keyboard. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-273847.html Well while in Munich a day trip to Salzburg was a necessary venture due to the fact that CMurda's a huge Sound of Music fan. It's funny though because the locals in Salzburg could give a rat's ass about the Sound of Music as most of them have never seen it Salzburg is not very big 150000 and it's totally doable in a day. It is however a cool town to stroll through and has amazing scenery http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-273774.html EEKStupid internet.Went to Schoenbrunn castle. And other stuff.More later once I find cheaper internet.Yes has schnitzel. VG. And lots http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-273136.html 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 during layover during which mom who was walking in good shoes but was wearing nylons in them got huge blisters on her feet. She's a little slow right now....Did a walkabout in Vienna yesterday. K http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-272702.html GreetingsCan't think and type fast enough to make use of this internet connection... so more later when I am at a less frentic pace. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-272541.html Hi dudesWe took a train from Vienna the day after Jess' dance audition to Graz. It was a very beautiful train ride lasting about 3 hours and went mainly through mountains and valleys. It was a sunny day but the mountains in the distance had snow covering their peaks. The countryside was how you would imagine old Austria to be pity Graz isnt.Our first impressions of Graz was that it was Austria http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Styria/Graz/blog-272122.html Samen met Anne ben ik een week in de zomer geweest waar wij altijd in de winter heen gaan. Daar hebben we verschillende kutleuke tochten gemaakt.... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Wilder-Kaiser/blog-271829.html Oh how I loved Italy It was so wonderful there In Rome I did more historical site seeing but in Venice I spent one day at the beach It was wonderful. We got tickets for the water taxi since thats there way of transportation... anywho we went to Murano first and watched people do glass blowing and sculpt these amazing pieces THen to Tolido to lay in the sun on the beach for a few hours... I got http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-271465.html Our Easter travels started off in a somewhat interesting manner. Firstly our driver to Stansted airport was seemingly drunk and had little competence in driving which was combined with the possibility that Al was going to be car sick was quite eventful. However after Caz told the driver off for being too lsquocrazyrsquo and then having to explain to him this was a bad thing we arrived at the a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/blog-270639.html 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 XMen Trilogy on DVD on my IPod and spent a lot of time eating sleeping and watching the sights of the towns we passed by. We took a bus from London to Dover a ferry from Dover bottom of England to Calais in France then up to Brussels in Belgium which http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-270297.html ViennaWe 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 decided to brave it We tried our best and managed to order most of our meal in German however after a bit of confusion about the type of beer on offer our waitress who didnrsquot speak much English http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-270292.html 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 to visit her in austria and vienna seemed like a convenient place to meet up. When we had went we went to go see 2 museums in vienna the kunsthistoriches and the belvedere. the kunsthistoriches http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-269946.html Today I've finally made up my mind to change my operation schedule. This is mainly because of two reasons1. Seasons in South America are different to ours about 6 month. This means that when whe have summer there's winter in South America of course not all the country. That means that winter is almost starting there at the moment and if I go there in June it definitely will not be the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Upper-Austria/Steyr/blog-269740.html Well it's spring now and time for me to go out and explore parts of Austria I've never seen before. One of these places is Riegersburg...one of the coolest castles Burg I've seen so far which lies on the Styrian border of Burgenland which used to be the border to the former Ottoman Empire. German makes the difference between castle Schloss and castle used for defense Burg for example http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Styria/Riegersburg/blog-269164.html Ok I thought it was time I wrote some more about Vienna as although I have done a lot of travelling and still have a lot more to do Vienna is still my favourite city and a city that will forever be close to my heart. I hope this entry gives everybody an idea of life in Vienna and what an average week in Vienna has for me. The photos have been stolen from all my friends and hopefully this allows http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-268923.html Hello Family and FriendsI have moved locations to ktausz.weebly.comThis site is more customizable and hopefully you will enjoy it better tooBye for nowKathy http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Innsbruck/blog-268635.html So zurzeit bin ich noch dabei die Reise zu fixieren Ich warte ebenso gespannt auf die elektronischen Tickets Hier mal eine aktuelle Zusammenfassung der ReiseAm 11.Juli wird einmal von Mnchen aus mit Qatar Airways Richtung Doha geflogen. Sind am berlegen ob wir ein paar Tage in Mnchen bleiben und uns die Stadt gnnen werden Von Doha dann direkt nach Manila wo wir am 12.Juli ankommen und http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Styria/Graz/blog-268602.html We crossed into Austria under the shadow of the Zugspitze and worked our way through the winter wonderland down to the main valley to reach Innsbrueck. Down in the valley the snow had turned to rain but we made the best of it because we anyway needed a place to pause in order to decide where to go snowboarding. The original plan was that Olaf a friend of Vivi's from Nuernberg was going to joi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/blog-268201.html Yes I know it's unbelievable but I did have the time to check some climatetables I'm not quite finished yet but I've added some interesting information about the climatezones in SouthAmerica and the best time to visit the countries. So here's the link to the actual exclefile Reisebewertung 190408 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Upper-Austria/Steyr/blog-268077.html Now here's the story and it's up to you to make up your mind2 weeks ago I went for lunch with an exworkingcolleague of mine. He told me great news about the department I've been working and has big plans for the future. He also asked me to stay at the company and to work together with him to fulfil this plans. It really sounds like a great future and the opportunities he showed me are amazin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Upper-Austria/Salzkammergut/blog-267390.html Hi allEspecially Taylor Aidan Luke and Joel and their mum and dads.We have now reached the Danude River at the other side of the mountains they have a monument tto recognise the continental divide from this point the Danude runs east and the Rhine Main rivers run to the west.Beautiful country with mountains villages along the way our next stop is Regensburg a preserved medival city not b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-267042.html It has been two weeks since our return to home sweet Innsbruck. By the end of our journey to eastern europe Jenna and Kathy were eagerly looking forward to seeing the mountains once again. Who knew that one could miss huge chunks of rock so muchWe arrived to a week filled with excruciatingly boring classes in which we hash over the tourism product and the importance of exceeding customer's e http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/blog-266794.html