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Etiquette Vienna

29 Reviews I learned the "Gruss Gott" when I made a stay in a factory of the (catholic) southern Germany i.e. Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. That was half century ago and it seems to me that in Austria as well...

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Desserts Salzburg

11 Reviews During a visit to Salzburg in December 2010, my girlfriend and I took the opportunity to purchase pieces of Original Sachertorte from the cake shop adjoined to the city's Hotel Sacher. This...

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Food and Drink Innsbruck

7 Reviews Cafe Munding is the oldest Coffee-House in Innsbruck. Founded in 1803 as 'Damencafé Konditorei Munding' (Ladies pastry shop) it was the first pastry shop in the world using a mechanical dough-kneading...

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Tipping Vienna

8 Reviews I saw it on many "tips" on VT, that it is usual to add 10% to the bill... THAT is simply not correct, as most people in Austria will just ROUND UP the bill like : 02,70 --> 3,00 27,30 -->...

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The Austrian People Salzburg

10 Reviews In Salzburg the people are very polite and all the people that I met spoke English (although some fluently, others only a bit). However, I think that when visiting another country you should try a few...

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Old Town Innsbruck

4 Reviews Beautiful paintings everywhere you look. During the guided tour this painting was explained to us. But I have to admit, I forgot what it was.... sorry!!! It still is beautiful to look at though...

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Kaffeehaus Vienna

17 Reviews The Sachertorte is a famous chocolate cake which was invented by the Viennese baker Franz Sacher in 1832, when he was in his second year of learning. An original Sachertorte consists of a dry...

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Dining Salzburg

10 Reviews While on the train from Munich to Salzburg in December 2010, my girlfriend and I found ourselves sitting across from a lady from Salzburg. Upon hearing that it was our first visit to Salzburg, she...

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People Innsbruck

3 Reviews When in Innsbruck/Tyrol --- or Austria in general you will hear a lot of folk-music mostly connected with some serious YODELING :) But how does one do that : holladiholladiridio????...

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festivals / Festwochen Vienna

18 Reviews From the 14th March until the 26 th March 2003, the 5th French speaking film festival will take place at the Votiv Cinema in Vienna! Films presented during this festival are from France, Egypt,...

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Market Day on Thursday Salzburg

2 Reviews Every Thursday, even in winter a nice flower market is held on Residenzplatz in the New Town. I was quite surprised when I stumbled across this small, charming market right as I started my sightseeing...

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Events Innsbruck

2 Reviews If you have the opportunity to travel to Innsbruck at the end of November until some days before the 24th of December, you can enjoy the Christmas market. There is one in the Old Town at the Golden...

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museums Vienna

24 Reviews Schoenbrunn castle - the former summerresidence of the austrian emperors. The big park around the castle Schoenbrunn is a great place for a walk, or to go jogging, BUT is totally Off limits for dogs...

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Street Performers Salzburg

3 Reviews You know that Salzburg is a city of (mostly classical) music, don't ya? If not you'll quickly learn from the musicians playing on the streets. Even in cold winter. This one on the picture played...

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Traffic Innsbruck

2 Reviews Austria requires Toll stickers on all vehicles travelling on their motorways and highways. You can purchase these stickers from post offices and petrol stations or the Austrian Automobile Clubs....

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X-mas / Weihnachten Vienna

16 Reviews Christkindlmarkt is the austrian name for "Christmas-market" and the most beautiful in many ways is for me the one in Schoenbrunn castle. There is a big number of shops lined up in a big cercle in the...

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Beer and Wine Salzburg

7 Reviews I'm not a beer drinker at all but beer is a tradition in Austria so I just had to try it . Its very good actually especially on a hot July day . My husband was in his glory as he loves beer anyway. He...

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Music Innsbruck

3 Reviews As I was saying, we followed the sounds of the music into the park. Where we came upon a small bandstand in which there were about 12 - 15 people playing. I swear one of the songs they played was...

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dress - codes Vienna

2 Reviews Although there is no formal dress code in the sense that you won't be let in without a tie, you will for sure get better service and experience less arrogance and grumpiness if you dress up a little....

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historical costumes Salzburg

2 Reviews Watch out for the parades - especially on sundays and special festivities like Easter-Sunday, when I took this picture. A band in tradtional costumes parading through the city, with great music like...

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Seasons Innsbruck

2 Reviews The summer high season is in July and August, when crowds will be bigger and prices higher. The heat can be very uncomfortable during the summers in the cities. Some institutions also will close down...

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ball - season & carneval Vienna

4 Reviews FASCHING is the austrian expression for Carneval - and in comparison to Venice or Cologne our kind of Carneval is certainly nothing you would miss, if you miss it... BUT attending a BALL in Vienna is...

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Coffee Salzburg

1 Review One of the truly Austrian habits is to spend some time weekly at the coffeehouse. "It's Austria!", they say. It's really relaxing to sit and drink nice coffee with a piece of cake! Isn't it marvelous!

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Innsbruck Card Innsbruck

1 Review Innsbruck Card includes free travel on public transport facilities, access to 21 sightseeing attractions and a return trip to the top of 'Nordkette' (7658 ft.), the Olympic 'Patscherkofl' (7372 ft.)...

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ACCOMMODATION

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In Austria, we didn't book any of our accommodation, this was in June.We either went to the Tourist Information centre, and they found a room for us, or looked for the "ZIMMER FREE" red & white flags that were flying infront of houses.This meant there was a room to rent in this house.Most we stayed in, had our own shower & Toilet, some we had to share. Price was good, and it was a chance to talk to locals [if they could speak English] and to see how they lived in Austria.YES....would do this again if ever in Austria.

St. Veit

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St. Veit, another small village near Leibnitz and not far from Ehrenhausen, looks very nice and offers to the visitors beautiful church and attractive center of the place.Here you can enjoy accomodations in agrotourism, which is much cheaper then staying in the local hotels. If you are nature lover and walking freak, this is the right place for relaxing holidays.

288 attractions in & around Vienna for 49 euros !

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This is a great deal that makes sense mainly for all tourists staying more than just 2-3 days in Vienna and intending to explore also the wider area around the city of Vienna ! Of course it also makes even more sense for everybody living in Vienna or Niederoesterreich ! With this ticket you may use the following attractions in Vienna 1 time each: 1)Siegmund Freud Museum 2)Schloss Belvedere 3)free dayticket for the park-train in Park Schoenbrunn 4)Haus der Musik 5)Riesenrad 6)Wagenburg (the royal carriages in Schoenbrunn) 7)Schatzkammer (treasury) in Hofburg 8)Heeresgeschichtliches Museum 9)Museum imSchottenstift 10)Wuestenhaus Schoenbrunn 11)Narrenturm for these 11 attractions in Vienna you normally pay more than 49 euros already AND in addition you get many more attractions outside of Vienna : Melk - Wachau - Ruine Aggstein - Schloss Grafenegg - Semmering - various cablecars and...

Klimt & Schiele FREE of charge every 1st Sunday !

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This is a way to save some money, when you come to Vienna on the 1st sunday of any month: See Klimt & Schiele-paintings FREE of charge every 1st Sunday of the month!Museum am Karlsplatz shows a lot of interesting exhibits and on the 2nd floor you will see their Klimt- and Schiele-Paintings among many other great paintings. Taking photos is no problem there !Every sunday this museum is free of charge for their permanent exhibitions ! You simply go there and ask for the free ticket at the counter. Dont make the mistake to buy a ticket there for the extra-exhibitions, because you would have to pay that also on sundays.The free part is the PERMANENT exhibition, and that is also a lot more interesting than most of the exhibitions they have as well, but change them every few weeks.-----------------------------------This museum is just about 100 meters from the Karlskirche. Get there by tram...

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N.Y.E. in Vienna ? - take the Sylvesterpfad

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Millions of tourists will come to Vienna at New Year's Eve and lots of them will come to attend the special atmosphere there on the traditional "Silvester-Pfad" ! Silvester-Pfad is the name of various festivities in Vienna on December 31st, when all of the inner city of Vienna is full of different shows, food-stands and when you are able to dance in the streets ( IN CASE that you find enough place to do so !!) In front of the townhall / Rathaus you might get dancing-lessons for viennese-waltz, beginning at 02.00p.m. and at night you might dance there as well in the open air, another open-air-dance-floor will be on Graben.Silvester-Pfad starts at 02.00p.m. and has an open end, although the official end is at 02.00a.m.!Be aware of the fact that the city of Vienna will be terribly crowded that day, especially close to Stephansdom, where Bummerin, the biggest bell of Austria will ring at...

Tipping or not ? How to do it right in Austria ?

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Tipping in Restaurants, taxis ect. in Austria: I read many "tips" on VT, that it would be usual to add 10%-15% to the bill...But THAT is simply not correct, as most people in Austria simply ROUND UP the bill like here:2,70 --> 3,0027,30 --> 28,00246,20 --> 250,00The only idea behind that kind of tipping is, not to get back a lot of small change and of course it is up to you to give a little extra for some excellent service !I work in Hotel & Restaurant business since more than 20 years now, and of course I know, there are guests, who tip a bit more on a special occasion, for EXTRA&SPECIAL service - sometimes simply in order to impress a nice waitress...BUT travelers on an ordinary budget ABSOLUTELY will NOT NEED to tip more than rounding up to the next full Euro !!!ALL restaurant bills will and have to include the service-charge (gratuity) already in the amount that is printed...

Falconry & Flying falcons at Burg Werfen

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This is a great adventure for the whole family, just take a look at my photos, the audience is sitting there watching, while eagles and falcons are flying in a short distance to them, you can almost touch them ! In the "Falkenhof" of Burg Werfen there will be daily performances of falcons flying in just a small distance from the audience, that is a really great experience !Normally I never cared about such performances, BUT this time I had payed for it in my ticket already and it started exactely when the guided castle-tour was over, so I had a look and it was one of the best shows I ever saw : a lady and a man took position at different places of the large falconry-court, one of them had the falcon, eagle and other birds sitting on the arm and after a signal they were flying to the arm of the other person and landed there again, passing by the people in the audience without even...

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Almabtrieb

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Every year in autumn you might be able to watch a special spectacle in all the villages around of the higher mountains mainly in Tirol, Kärnten, Vorarlberg and the County Salzburg: Almabtrieb is an annual event in the very late summer or in autumn: It is the day when the cows and other animals are taken from the higher alps in the mountains back into the farms. For that event the animals will be decorated with flowers and you will hear their bells already a long time before you will see them coming.Be prepared of the roads beeing totally closed for cartrafic for several hours on such a day, but it is also great fun to watch this spectacle. Also the farmers and alpine "cow-boys and -girls" will wear their very best alpine costumes.My photos here were taken at an Almabtrieb in Switzerland, but Tirol is very much the same that way and the link below will show you the calender for Tirol...

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a lot of fun at the cemetery

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This austrian tourist-attraction in Tirol, about halfway between Innsbruck and Kufstein is mainly ment for people, who understand some german !The Museumsfriedhof in Kramsach is a museum of funny tombstone-inscriptions. The Museum-Friedhof of Kramsach is a small openair-museum that you will find inside of the garden behind of a company that obviously is producing modern tombstones and started collecting old and funny inscriptions that they found in various cemeteries of the area of Bavaria and Tyrol. They have a souvenirshop as well. Go inside, there is no entrancefee for the museum and it is a lot of fun to read these inscriptions, BUT You actually have to understand german in order to really enjoy this. This museum is open for visitorsdaily between 09.00am and 06.00pmUnfortunately PHOTOGRAPHY IS FORBIDDEN THERE !!!Thats why I printed just some of the texts here :--- --- --- --- ---...

A special event in each September: Almabtrieb

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Almabtrieb is an annual event in the very late summer or in autumn: It is the day when the cows and other animals are taken from the higher alps in the mountains back into the farms. For that event the animals will be decorated with flowers and you will hear their bells already a long time before you will see them coming.Be prepared of the roads beeing totally closed for cartrafic for several hours on such a day, but it is also great fun to watch this spectacle. Also the farmers and alpine "cow-boys and -girls" will wear their very best alpine costumes.My photos here were taken at an Almabtrieb in Switzerland, but Tirol is very much the same that way and the link below will show you the calender for Tirol regarding the Almabtrieb-dates.

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