Food in Austria

Visiting Lake Constance (Bodensee)

The Bodensee is a wide spot in the Rhine River about 40 miles long and seven miles wide. Our 3-4 visits to the Bodensee were in the 1980s, and our impression was that it was a popular vacation spot...

Visiting Lofer, Austria

When it comes to quaint EU villages, Lofer will more than suffice, although the growth of the ski resort has radically charged the place since the 1980s. Lofer is just off the main road. Cars are not...

Austria: the Best of the EU

On our 17th European vacation, we concluded that Austria was the best destination in Europe. After 45 EU vacations, we modified that to Austria and Prague are the best, but Prague...

Vienna, when everything started

My trip to Vienna triggered everything, somehow. That's why I'm going to start writing and telling from here. Decided by chance, with a lot of insecurities because we were inexperienced, but we...

Fairytales Are Real... And They Exist in Bavaria

Remember when you were a child and heard stories of magical fairytale castles and towns filled with gingerbread-like houses? You began to dream about what it would be like to walk out on the balcony...

4 tips to save money in Austria's expensive capital Vienna

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between”, Mozart once mentioned. I love to believe this was a thought cultivated by his life line meandering in between the sumptuous city...