Destination: Austria
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Fri, 23 Nov 2007 | By burrellian | Views [386] | Comments [10]
Left gorgeous CK this morning, after poping out early to get a few more shots. After a quick breakfast we: Americans: Jeff & Nathan. Brits: Nick & John. Australians: Fiona & I. Jumped on a minibus headed for Lince, Austria. The scenery ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 24 Dec 2007 | By burrellian | Views [444] | Comments [8]
Day 1 - Another full day of travel ahead, but very excited to be heading into the alps for a White Christmas :-) Said a quick farewell to Tarena, who is heading back to the UK for Xmas with some friends. I've really enjoyed having her company for these ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 26 May 2009 | By anijensen | Views [134] | Comments [7]
The travelers have all hooked up successfully. Bernie and Philip – SFO to Munich; Vinnie and Anita – Copenhagen to Munich. V&A got our rental car – a Peugeot 308 SW – very comfy and good for luggage. Vinnie was pulled over by a German polizei ... Read more >
Fri, 2 May 2008 | By jess_dan | Views [216] | Comments [6]
dear all, thankyou so much to everyone that comments on the blog, its great to read all your comments..and i dont think i realised how much i write about the food till i read your comments.all the food is just so good! I cant remember exactly what ... Read more >
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 | By mattso | Views [349] | Comments [5]
One thing about arriving at a new place in the dark is you have no idea what the countryside looks like, so I was gobsmacked when I woke up to see towering snowy mountains in every direction! This is Salzburg - the place where everything is Mozart and ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 | By stowaway | Views [4777] | Comments [4]
'We walked in the cold air, freezing breath on the window pane, lying & waiting.... yadda yadda yadda..... Ahhh Vienna '. Oh well, it will make sense to 80's music junkies like me. Yep, I'm in Vienna, Austria.
I'm having a bit of reverse culture ... Read more >
Tags: snow, vienna, austria, chocolate, christmas, travel broadens the mind, travel broadens the behind, hot chocolate, ultravox, snow
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 | By seal | Views [183] | Comments [4]
Got an excellent link on the subject matter today from Jeff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube Thanks for that - good job I never looked at that before leaving - would have put me right off - had no idea it´s that far. On a break today - it´s ... Read more >
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 | By mel_mel | Views [181] | Comments [4]
Holy crap! I nearly forgot my summary! Here it is folks, sorry to keep you waiting. Bottom Five: 5. The cities kinda blending in together - pretty but not much variation. 4. Walking back from Cristalwelten - four hours of pain, thirst and hot!! (yeah, ... Read more >
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 | By countryboy | Views [180] | Comments [4]
Chapter Eins: Vienna is full of Kunst. I barely go a day without seeing some. You can practically smell it as you wander the streets or dodge the trams. From the old to the new, there’s something for every Kunst lover here in Austria’s capital. People ... Read more >
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 | By vien_and_shaz | Views [466] | Comments [3]
In the last
week we’ve left Croatia and
spent a few days in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Salzburg
(Austria).
We’re now
taking trains instead of rickety old buses which is soo much more comfy
although, worryingly in 10 mins ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 | By countryboy | Views [193] | Comments [3]
Chapter Drei: I have a suspicion, and I think I’m probably right, that one shouldn’t even begin to have the kind of urge that would result in a nun being slapped. Nonetheless… It’s a 2-show day, but I’m up and out the hotel double doors and ... Read more >
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 | By seal | Views [188] | Comments [3]
Without a break I paddeled to get to Vienna before lunch and then I get to the Lock and sidearm of Greifenstein. In the quiet sidearm which they almost always convert into a bathing area, are the finest swimming facilities I have seen all trip. I decide ... Read more >
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 | By seal | Views [169] | Comments [3]
Barely a hundred kilometers south-east of Germany and they are having a heatwave. The ground is to dry to pitch your tent proberly, the air is too dry to breath and the insects are loving it and you. Good job I only had to do 33 kilometers today. My ... Read more >
Wed, 13 May 2009 | By pecosbiff | Views [158] | Comments [3]
What fabulous people! Nipped into the loo at Baghdad (Aleppo)train station and short woman in burqua smiled and chattered and delved into her bag and produced a yellow rose for me - then dove again and handed me a red one as well. I laughed and kissed ... Read more >
Tags: aleppo, hatay, syrian border, smoking
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 | By milko_rosie | Views [90] | Comments [3]
September 16 th We wanted to get to Vienna (Wien) at lunch so we left our camp earlyish, and drove south east to Vienna. We made slower than expected progress, but made it to our campground at 12:30pm only to be told by a fairly abrupt older lady ... Read more >
Thu, 6 Aug 2009 | By nadscol | Views [74] | Comments [3]
(Dec 08) Well finally I’m back to Fieberbrunn, it’s Christmas and a weeks worth of snowboarding and associated shenanigans. The only dampener of this mood is my ongoing illness. We drove from Munich to Fieberbrunn (Austria) and I was felling ... Read more >
Tags: austria
Mon, 23 Oct 2006 | By all_powered_up | Views [686] | Comments [2]
Vienna - a great city and i love it "and that's all I have say about that." Forest Gump. If you want to know more - go there. I've had a couple of complaints - "where's the chicks" is one. That was from my mate Craig and sorry ... Read more >
Sun, 22 Apr 2007 | By craigbyer | Views [639] | Comments [2]
I just got back this evening from my excursion to Austria and Switzerland. I could sit here and write an extensive entry about my experiences but I'll just let my photos do the talking .... for now. All of these places were just beyond belief. I wish ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 | By nznl1 | Views [346] | Comments [2]
hello from cesky krumlov we travel back to wien where the next day we did a guided tour of the city because the city is so big and the fact that we only had one day here. the highlight of this trip was the visit to the schonbrunn palace. from here we ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 5 Aug 2008 | By mel_mel | Views [283] | Comments [2]
I can’t believe it’s only been three days since I’ve updated. Seems like much longer. We are currently slumped in our room, rubbing our aching feet and wondering why we thought it was a good idea to cover around 35km in two days. Sure, it’s not the ... Read more >
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 | By jessiejames | Views [203] | Comments [2]
So a very quick update from the European front. The last week has flown by and both of us are pretty exhausted from the travelling - in fact Erics currently asleep. Here´s the low down... From Roma we caught a train up to Florence. This city is spectacular.... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Sat, 30 May 2009 | By anijensen | Views [100] | Comments [2]
Left the Salzkamergut, driving through alpine river gorges...up over the top at Simmering Pass and down into the Danube plain...Vienna, Vinnie at the wheel, into the heart into the RingStrasse...stunning Old World architure everywhere...bus tour to get ... Read more >
Tue, 19 May 2009 | By katie_louise | Views [99] | Comments [2]
Hello, I know I start everything like this but again, I dont have long....Got to get to Bratislava today. So basically we left Munich just under a week ago to venture to the great land that is Austria. I have never wanted to come to Austria before ... Read more >
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 | By anijensen | Views [77] | Comments [2]
Our last full day in Vienna was rainy and cold. We attempted to walk to an open air market but lost our way so instead stopped for coffee and sweets, a favorite pastime of ours here (coffee and pastries…not getting lost)! After the rain finished ... Read more >
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 | By ride-earth | Views [741] | Comments [1]
Tom If you had asked me one year ago about my thoughts on vegetarianism,
I would have replied that there was no argument that would convince me
to give up eating meat. It constitutes a necessary part of our diet, we
are all born omnivorous, and ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
