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May Day at The White Horse Inn on Lake Wolfgang, Austria – video
Blog: Heather on her travels - 14 November 2011
“You know the water in the lake is drinking quality?” I was told by my new friend Wolfgang, as he pressed me to drink another glass of sparkling Sekt, the Austrian version of Champagne. By this time I was starting to feel a bit tiddly, but it certainly tasted better than a glass of lake [...]
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Riding the steam train – on the Schafburgbahn at St Wolfgang- video
Blog: Heather on her travels - 2 July 2011
It’s a while since I read Thomas the Tank Engine as a bed-time story to my kids, but if I was making the Schafburgbahn steam train into a character from that book, I’d say it was a cheerful little engine with a few stories to tell. Who wouldn’t be put in a good mood by [...]
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Bratwurst and Sacher Torte – or what we ate in Salzburg
Blog: Heather on her travels - 24 June 2011
I’d hate to be a vegetarian in Austria, where meat features heavily on every menu – it can be rather daunting to be constantly faced with slabs of roast pork, huge bratwurst sausages or goulash made with beer. Most of the food we ate in Salzburg was tasty, rib-sticking stuff majoring on roast meat with [...]
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16 Salzburg and Lake Wolfgang in Austria – Podcast
Blog: Heather on her travels - 28 May 2011
In Podcast 16 I visit Salzburg in Austria and the nearby Lake Wolfgang at the beginning of May with my family. We looked in at Hangar 7, a combination of motor and aeronautical museum and foodie destination, climbed up to the Hohensalzburg Fortress that dominates Salzburg, and tapped into the musical connections that the city [...]
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