It’s nice to see that Josefstadt, Vienna’s 8th district, remains full of weird tiny restaurants. They open, they close, new...
Of all the eateries in and around Abtenau, the tourist brochures single out Gsengalm as the most authentic one. They...
Augustinerkeller must be a place that quite a few people write home from every day. No, they don’t really write...
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After my two short holidays in Salzburg’s Pongau, I think I have understood the main trick of predicting the local...
I suppose calling their dish a “real” (or “typical”) Brettljause of the Pongau region was a sort of an inside...
One day I will prepare a Bretljause map of Austria. It won’t show where the Bretljausen are, however (for that...
On paper, Abtenau looked like a perfect weekend destination. Arrive on Friday after work, eat, sleep, spend the Saturday hiking...
Hochkar is one of those places that has been on my radar for quite a while. Too distant to visit...
If one asks for the main attraction in Simmering, the 11th district of Vienna, most people will answer “the central...
The Austrian ski resort of Obertauern must be a very jolly (albeit pricey) place to be in winter. In summer,...
Jägersee literally means the “hunters’ lake,” and I suppose there is quite a lot of hunting going on in the...
These days the square and the park in front of Vienna’s City Hall are so rarely free of public events...