In my short (and therefore not reliable) experience, Hotel Post is one of the better places to dine in Abtenau....
Month: July 2018
On paper, Abtenau looked like a perfect weekend destination. Arrive on Friday after work, eat, sleep, spend the Saturday hiking...
Of all the eateries in and around Abtenau, the tourist brochures single out Gsengalm as the most authentic one. They...
Hochkar is one of those places that has been on my radar for quite a while. Too distant to visit...
Augustinerkeller must be a place that quite a few people write home from every day. No, they don’t really write...
If one asks for the main attraction in Simmering, the 11th district of Vienna, most people will answer “the central...
After my two short holidays in Salzburg’s Pongau, I think I have understood the main trick of predicting the local...
The Austrian ski resort of Obertauern must be a very jolly (albeit pricey) place to be in winter. In summer,...
I suppose calling their dish a “real” (or “typical”) Brettljause of the Pongau region was a sort of an inside...
Jägersee literally means the “hunters’ lake,” and I suppose there is quite a lot of hunting going on in the...
One day I will prepare a Bretljause map of Austria. It won’t show where the Bretljausen are, however (for that...












