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Viennese Food: 5 Foods to Try in Vienna
Blog: Pommie Travels - 16 May 2012
Vienna is known for its pastries and traditional coffee houses, but there are also various other traditional Viennese foods you [...]
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Culture in a Cup
Blog: Ottsworld - 15 May 2012
I’m never drawn to the proper side of life, I prefer the messy – yet something was drawing me into the sophisticated side of Vienna. The aroma of coffee and music of Mozart being played on the piano in the background must have put a spell on me. Or maybe it was the dour faced [...]
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Vienna Opera House in Photos
Blog: Ottsworld - 11 May 2012
Some people drink a Diet Coke a day, or have a daily piece of chocolate, or a daily route they take to work – daily routines can be a good thing. Even the Vienna State Opera House has a routine – they put on a production every day – yes, every day. It’s like a [...]
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Vienna Travel Tips
Blog: Ottsworld - 10 May 2012
I had never really considered Vienna before, however upon reading an article by Andrew McCarthy in National Geographic last fall, it came onto my radar. He wrote, “I have arrived in Vienna with a simple plan: to live as local a life as possible. Instead of discovering this famously imperial city from the comforts and [...]
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Deciphering a New Culture – Vienna
Blog: Ottsworld - 8 May 2012
It wasn’t until I got off the train in Vienna that I had realized just how long I had been in Italy. I disembarked the train and followed the breadcrumb trail of “i” signs making my way to an information booth to figure out how to get to Landstraße (District 3). The apartment owner, [...]
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The Day I Held the Iron Curtain In My Hand
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 16 April 2012
Sometimes things go wrong in life. The printer at the car hire company breaks, the sat nav doesn’t work, the journey is longer than you’ve been told and you turn up very late. Sometimes other things go wrong The Day I Held the Iron Curtain In My Hand first appeared on
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Four Days and Four Nights in Vienna
Blog: Suzy Guese - 22 March 2012
I wasn’t supposed to be in Vienna and yet I think I was. A city I only briefly visited in college with a school group, from that first meeting, I knew I wanted more. On my recent trip through Eastern Europe, the plan was to head to Romania. However with sub zero temperatures, national road [...]
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The Berlin Wall in Vienna
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 19 March 2012
The year is 1945 and ash, smoke, poverty and despair rise through the rubble of Europe. Nearly ten million Soviets died on the eastern front. Eleven million in the concentration camps. And the Soviet Red Army have just captured Vienna...The Berlin Wall in Vienna first appeared on
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Photos of Vienna – The Seventh Stop on the Iron Route
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 16 March 2012
I arrived in style, travelling from the aged grandeur of Keleti Pu station in Budapest to the ultra-modern Vienna West Bahnhof in a first class carriage with a waitress-led drinks service. After the cities I had been travelling through, the razzle and dazzle of the bright lights, tinsel and golden baubles of Vienna West provided a little jolt of culture shock. On the other hand...
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Dessert in Vienna: A Slice of Aristocracy and the Sacher Torte
Blog: Suzy Guese - 7 March 2012
I step inside what appears to be wall-to-wall red fabric with gold appliqué, large portraiture and dripping crystal. A man in a black suit greets me as he points me in the direction of the coat check. Still frozen from Vienna’s cold outside, I hesitate. Do I have to? I glance around at the opulence [...]
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Hiking in Tyrol with Oetzi
Blog: Sophie's World - 7 March 2012
Oetzi may have been hiking in these hills 5000 years ago. I did last summer. I had it much easier than he did, though. I took the cable car. Hiking in Tyrol with Oetzi is a post from Sophie's World
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Oh Vienna, how could you do this to me?
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 27 February 2012
One of the first ever images I saw of Vienna was off a postcard featuring the stunning Karlskirche., but it wasn’t only the church itself which made me go all wide eyed. Mostly, it was also the setting. In front of the church was a glimmering pool of blue water, with a sinuous sculpture seemingly [...]
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Slow Travel Vienna: Suggested itinerary and pace
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 20 February 2012
To my great frustration, I could only free up three days to visit Vienna, but a proper slow traveller would make sure to have at least 1 full week to explore this amazing city, especially if such traveller has varied interests. The following are ideas and tips taking many different interests into consideration, though I [...]
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My Four Least Romantic Travel Experiences
Blog: Landlopers - 14 February 2012
Just to preface this post, these are my personal least romantic experiences. I don’t mean to say that these activities are themselves inherently unromantic, but for us they were anything but romantic. 1. Flying anywhere - I can’t think of anything that can ruin a...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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In Search of Schnitzel in Vienna
Blog: Suzy Guese - 8 February 2012
It is so quiet you could hear my fork drop on the plate ever so lightly, that is, if I ever put it down. My waiter makes certain to place my Erdäpfel-Vogerlsalat, a vinegary potato salad with lamb’s lettuce, down in such a manner that I wouldn’t ever have to give my fork a rest. [...]
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Picture Perfect: Pretty Churches in Europe
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 1 February 2012
This post is part of a new series entitled ‘Picture Perfect’, published because of my wish to showcase some beautiful travel shots from around the world which didn’t quite make it into regular blog posts or which tell a story on their own and need few words, if any, to describe them. I grew up [...]
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Schloss Schonbrunn, Vienna: A splash of colour in the Grey
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 30 January 2012
The sky was grey, colourless. Most trees had long shed their leaves, the shrubs shrivelled and lost their green. Little colour was left apart from the slightly tired-looking lawn, but it was not hard to image how magnificent the Schloss Schonbrunn’s gardens would look come Spring and Summer, mainly because a few months earlier, Kristina [...]
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Buildings on Aesthetic Steroids: The Hofburg, Vienna
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 23 January 2012
*Cue atmospheric instrumental music. Switch on fog machine, set on low. Imagine Anthony Bourdain’s sexy low voice, though actually it’s me, Denise, but his voice sounds much nicer.* …Where am I? Is this a dream? Everywhere I turn metallic green statues of proud men on horses gaze at me from their high pedestals. Buildings so [...]
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Vienna: More time, less phlegm
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 21 January 2012
Every trip we take automatically becomes associated with something. For me, Seoul conjures up images of spicy food and super-trendy youths. Budapest makes me think of cold, Art Nouveau, and more cold. Did I mentioned the cold? Bali reminds me of pools, and crashing waves, and bad food. And Vienna will, unfortunately, forever be associated [...]
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Vagobond Travel Museum – January 20, 2012
Blog: Vagobond.com - 20 January 2012
These are my Travel Museum Inductions for the third week of January 2012. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Highlights 2011 – Natural Wonders Slideshow
Blog: Solo Traveler - 26 December 2011
A year end photo slideshow of the many natural wonders I experienced in 2011.
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The Best Christmas Markets in the World*
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 23 December 2011
So, to celebrate gingerbread, gluhwein and twinkling bright lights, I bring you this post: the Best Christmas Markets in the World. (Only, it's not really the whole world. Just the countries between Turkey and Germany. But let's face it, that wouldn't make such a good title...
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Lady in Innsbruck
Blog: A Lady in London - 21 December 2011
Most people travel to Innsbruck for the skiing. The city’s airport is famous for being located just 10 minutes from the slopes and close to some of the best skiing in Austria. But there are things to do in Innsbruck in the wintertime that don’t involve skis, and I was excited to discover them when [...]
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Lady in Salzburg
Blog: A Lady in London - 20 December 2011
After a week in sunny Brazil, I returned to the UK with just a week and a half to go until Christmas. I was ready to get back into the winter spirit, complete with snow. Lucky for me, I had been invited to fly on easyJet’s inaugural flight from London Luton Airport to Salzburg, Austria. [...]
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The Weekly Photo: Salzburg Castle
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 18 December 2011
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