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- Vienna
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
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- 8,150,835
- Population
- AT
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Austria Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Austria
Three Countries In One Day
This is a top pick! ... up the mountain to knock on his door so we carried on through, and reached the Austrian border after half an hour. Austria immediately seemed different, much livelier, lots of people around and all the shops were open. Seeing enormous mountains all around ...
We've finaly started
This is a top pick! Vienna was great. Staying in our first hostel was a really good education. Met tons of fellow backpackers all very friendly. Majority were American Canadian. Did the usual Vienna attractions St Stephens Cathedral and the Lipizzana Museum as the ...
All that glitters is not gold
This is a top pick! We have spent the last 3 nights in the basement of LA House in Fussen which has been a good base and having access to internet has been a bonus. The basement room is huge and able to sleep 5 so it's been nice to spread out our junk and watch TV and sit ...
Vienna - Choir City.
This is a top pick! 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, doing a tour of the world famous Vienna Opera ...
Austrian Corn Fields and not much else
This is a top pick! Enjoyed breakfast back in Melk opposite a funny little toy shop which sold Polly Pockets (no longer small enough to fit in your pocket). We set off to St Polten. The damn head wind had not died and it continued to hamper our progress. I ...
Ice Cold Cave..
This is a top pick! <Brian's brief chronological list of "highlights" (and of whinging)> - Went to the Mirabell Gardens to watch a brass band play in the morning. This was pretty cool, except we didn't know the songs they were playing and ...
Mountains for two
This is a top pick! The day started early - very early, which was a bit of a shock to the system. We had breakfast alone as nobody else was stupid enough to have woken up this early. Tip # 24. Always take a coat with large pockets or an empty handbag to breakfast. The ...
The Water Witch of Steyr casts her spell
This is a top pick! I had woken Polly in the night, the unfamiliarity of the bunks must have freaked me and I thought Polly was not in the room. I shouted lots until Polly calmly asked what was the matter! Breakfast was included, went for it and stocked up ...
Salt Castle
This is a top pick! Once upon a time there was a mountainous region in Austria where rich mines of salt were discovered. The world craved salt for many reasons but the most important one was to preserve meats in times of no refrigerators, so the Austrian salt mines were ...
Beaten by broken shoes and head winds
This is a top pick! Great early wake up promised a day where we could make good ground and enjoy an early finish (oh if only). The afore mentioned Water Witch was weaving her magic, I fell off up the first hill and cut the back of my leg on the front cogs. When ...
More Mozart..
This is a top pick! <Brian's brief chronological list of "highlights" (and of whinging)> - Did the Rick Steve's self guided tram tour from his book which gave a quick listing of the highlights of the city. - Did the Rick Steve's self ...
Austria WINS!!!! The Most Boring Tour Ever!
This is a top pick! There are two "Sound of Music" tours being run in Salzburg. One is called "The Most Unique Sound of Music Tour" and the other is called "The Original Sound of Music Tour". I had previously read in a guidebook 'to make sure you get xyz tour and not the ...
Europe, phase 2
This is a top pick! Dreadfully ill, yet again, Scott and I took our longest and what was to be our 15th flight so far to Vienna, Austria, our arrival point in Europe from which we would bus it to Prague. Many moons ago, and one year before we met, Scott and I both ...
The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Reflections.
This is a top pick! ... 2" thick (ok, that's an exaggeration, but still, it's pretty thick!!). It seems that the staple diet in Switzerland, Germany and Austria is meat, sausages and potatoes - so perfect for Brian. Sometimes these meals may come with a salad, but apart from the ...
A long and unproductive day..
This is a top pick! <Brian's brief chronological list of "highlights" (and of whinging)> - Grabbed the hotel bikes and rode around the Lake Bled to see the island from the other side of the lake. - Caught the bus, then the train to Ljubljana, ...
Autruche
This is a top pick! Hey ho! Fait un bail hein?! Internet est loin de mon auberge et loin d'etre gratuit. Je suis a Innsbruck en Autriche depuis beaucoup trop longtemps! 5 jours pour une si petite ville c'est beaucoup trop! Ces temps-ci l'autriche ne cesse de battre des ...
Golden Girl
This is a top pick! <Brian's brief chronological list of "highlights" (and of whinging)> - Bought a Innsbruck card that gives you transport around Innsbruck and entry to an assortment of places like museums and the Alpenzoo... the pass ...
A return to Salzburg
This is a top pick! ... we were here, there was not one internet café, now they were on every corner. My dream of being the internet café king of Innsbruck had been shot down in flames. You can't always get what you want, so we left Austria and headed back to old London ...
Extract: picture julie in a tight black ...
This is a top pick! ... from Vienna to Salzburg, our midway point from Budapest. "Passport? Why the hell would you need a passport in the middle of Austria!" said the smiling austrian train conductor as I handed over all of my documents to her from our train cubicle. After ...
Danka!
This is a top pick! ... I do like how the rockey mountains in Canada seem more pristine because they are not heavily industrialized and populated but most of Austria is mountains so I do not think the have a choice! One thing I could not believe that the hostel charged a ...
vienna off to a completely wild start
This is a top pick! Prague was great, nothing quite as crazy as the first night, but generally very interesting place. I went to a few places advised by previously mentioned American living in Prague for a few months, they were great. One crazy huge pendulum thing that ...
Hofgarten, Austria
This is a top pick! ... Glacial streams, snowy mountains, green fields and amazing cottages with flower boxes in every window. I guess it really was stereotypical Austria and it was great. After a couple couples we reached our destination. A BBQ lunch was well deserved, a ...
Wien
This is a top pick! ... I spent the day visiting city center...more palaces, more cathedrials. I never realized how many amazing people came from Austria....Mozart, Hayden, Strauss, and FREUD! I went to visit the place where Freud lived most his life and carried ...
Vienna, Austria
This is a top pick! Straight into the center of Vienna after a good breakfast at our nice hotel. The people seem to be very friendly and the number of naked people on the bilboards is a bonus. We have a quick tour around the city ring and then walk through to the palace and ...
The hills are alive with aussie's drinking bourbs!
This is a top pick! ... the hotel - trying to re-pack again before we headed off early the next morning bound for Munich!! Enjoy the photos!! L :-) xo P.S. Whilst still in Austria on our way to Munich I had a 'Sound of Music' moment so have included that in this ...
Vienna
This is a top pick! Kerri and I took a bus from Bratislava to Vienna for 7 euro a piece. I met a German girl named Friederike when I was in Ireland. She told me she was living in Vienna and said when and if I make there I had a place to stay so I accepted her offer. Kerri ...
Change of plans
After the great weekend in Munich we continued to Vienna. Mr Kaplony told us that Vienna was really nice and so we changed our plans and went to Vienna instead of Salzburg. Hitchhiking from Munich to Vienna went really well. We started at a gas station ...
Castles, Churches, and Wienerschnitzel
... . From 1945-1955, France, Britain, Russia, and the United States oversaw a transition to the second Republic of Austria. One condition of independence was that all memorials constructed by Allied forces had to remain untouched. This is ...
Semmering
Went skiing today. Did not take my phone so no photos to upload today sorry! But there are photos on the camera. Woke early and bought supplies from the supermarket. Caught the first train to Semmering. Shared the compartment with a radio equipment ...