Austria Travel Blogs

Hello everybody, Trains can be fun and efficient. For a trip through the Alps and Germany, though, I rented a car. Easy access to all the castles and quaint little towns. The Alps are pretty impressive. One Mt Rainier after another. The summits ...

A travel blog entry from Reutte by eric
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... of the Hapsburgs. The Treasury boasts the best collection of crown jewels in Europe. And its home to one of Austria's most familiar icons, the Vienna Boys Choir. Again I'm amazed at the architecture. St Stephen's Cathedral took over 200 years to ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by eric
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Berlin/Dresden:  Eb here (finally!). Sorry about the wait, folks.(Eb goes a little red-faced, looks at her shoes)Will try and make this entry worth yer while... Go make a cuppa, you´ll need one. We left Berlin in a shower of sparks. ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by elsewhere
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... where some people would only pick up unknown illnesses, bruises and cuts.  I got over the worst.  With Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany, what could possibly happen?  NOBODY gets hurt while traveling in these places.  Right? ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by sojanet
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Brett and I went to Germany (Munich) and Austria. We skied in Austria which had excellent conditions. The people seemed a bit cold though. Never mind I - I was there for the skiing.

A travel blog entry from Kittsbuhl by paul
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... the classy club that charges 12 euros on a Wednesday night, I just want to go back.  By the time, we end up in a tiny bar with a dance floor, it is 2 am and apparently closing (or does not want us there?).  So much for a crazy night in Austria!

A travel blog entry from Vienna by sojanet
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Hi everybody! For our two week vacation this year we decided to go to Slovenia and Croatia. These are 2 countries that have become quite popular with Europeans again - as they were prior to the wars and other events that separated the former Yugoslavia ...

A travel blog entry from Salzburg by chronometers
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... palm trees and beaches.  But generally, it's a good response unlike our two-time elected president.    Austria is quite like Germany.  People speak German, food is almost identical and transportation system is basically the same, ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by yah27
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Day 42- Bright and very early we boarded a train for Vienna. To both of our shock and surprise, the train left EXACTLY on time. I was not used to this and then I remembered,  'oh yeah, this is an Austrian train'. The train was clean and made every ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by tbassplayer
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... the train station, so I was out and off to Vienna by 11am, heading out of the old communist countries and over to right-wing Austria.  The train journey only took about 1 and a half hours, and the biggest thing that struck me was just how many wind ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by hels_belles
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... a chocolate snowman for Brad! Did succumb to some tat later though and found myself with some magnets saying "no kangaroos in austria". We did also wander around the Naschmarkt (Viennese markets, which started in the 16th Century) but only because we were ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by itsem
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We love Vienna!  It is up there with Edinburgh and London as one of our favourites.  Vienna is spilling over with beautiful parks, stunning palaces, museums and art collections to rival those of Paris, and it has an atmosphere that shows that the Viennese ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by meganandkevin
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We stopped here in Salzburg to look around and to grab some provisions before crossing the Alps. Salzburg is a beautiful city, with a mountainous backdrop that gives it a character all of its own. It is suprisingly close to munich (117km at a 130kph ...

A travel blog entry from Salzburg by akawally
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... My laptop i purchased via ebay to save few bucks is turning out to be my biggest headache thus far on this trip. i'm in vienna, austria right now, headed to budapest tmrw. hopefully, i can get my laptop fixed there. i'll have updates to Berlin, Prague, ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by yah27
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Day 50 - In the morning, we caught our train transfer in the Vienna train station. We went through the Alps and saw snow on the ground. When we got to Salzburg, we called the hostel and announced we were arriving. They said we would pick us up at the ...

A travel blog entry from Salzburg by tbassplayer
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first stop

A travel blog entry from Gmunden by sojanet
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Hearing of the famed golden roof how excited was I. Sadly its kind of small and not really that easy to steal as a souvineer. Still in the mood for something glittering we stopped at the swarovski crystal store for some sparkly things and then took a ...

A travel blog entry from Innsbruck by itsem
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... only 30 miles north of the Italian border and 45 miles south of Germany.  Innsbruck is said to rival Vienna and Salzburg for Austria's most beautiful city.   It has a population of only 130,000 (all seem sooo nice as well) but a history that ...

A travel blog entry from Innsbruck by meganandkevin
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Tried to ski, went for a long weekend to St Anton, which was populated by hoardes of marauding males - hello!  Became an expert apres skiing, it takes a lot of practice and skill to down a jager shot from a bottle being held 20 cms above your ...

A travel blog entry from St Anton by hess
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... police. We were on an entry road to the highway which had a lower than expected speed limit. Turns out that in Austria a U.S. driver's license is not valid; an international driver's license is required. In addition, Chris' driver's license shows an ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by chronometers
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Another lovely sunny day, so I headed off to the Schloss Schronbrunn which is a 1440 room palace complete with gardens and even a maze.  The sun was really beating down so I thought I'd just take a walk through the gardens rather than go into the ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by hels_belles
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IMH: It is amazing to think that Austria borders 8 other states: Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic. We passed through Cesky Krumlov, a small town in Czech Republic crowned by an audacious castle and ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by vine_hooligans
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Edelweiss, Edelweiss... Greetings from the land of white gold - salt! In medieval times, it was essential to preserving food. Outside Salzburg are numerous salt mines. And sitting over the city - mighty Hohensalzburg Fortress to protect the ...

A travel blog entry from Salzburg by eric
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... there are Kangaroo's in Australia as everyone knows, but i didn't cotten on till the last day that it actually said "Austria" not "Australia" - definatly a blonde moment for myself. Well getting here was quite the task but quite amusing now i look back ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by clintonb
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A travel blog entry from Vienna by lraleigh
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Must come back to this beautiful town...

A travel blog entry from Salzburg by vine_hooligans
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... but it was about 5 below in Vienna for most of today. Arrived just before one and had to get somewhere to sleep (being Austria, this was done very efficiently, brilliant hostel near the train station, but it is strange being back to dorm living after two ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by mhaebich
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... 18. We continued clockwise to Krakow and Zakopane in Poland, across the Tatra Mountains to Budapest, Hungary, and then west to Vienna, Austria. We spent approximately two days at each stop and mostly used our rail pass to get from one place to another. We ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by jill_and_andy
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What a beautiful city Vienna is! Lots of buildings look like fancy wedding cakes. We teamed up with a fellow Australian, Wez and the three of us went out to see the city. Some of the highlights were the doing a tour of the world famous Vienna Opera house ...

A travel blog entry from Vienna by heatheravan
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Being a self-confessed fan of Sound of Music, I had to return to Salzburg. But I was rather disappointed that many of the locations are out of town or hidden behind gates (e.g. Nonberg Church where the opening scene was shot, along with the huge Festival ...

A travel blog entry from Salzburg by shanewilson
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