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Karlskirche In my time in Vienna, I have only met one person who said they would live somewhere else. He has lived in Vienna for over twenty years and said he would live in the...
Old Town Innsbruck I took a short trip over (4 hours by train) to Innsbruck, Austria’s 5th largest city. Innsbruck has a population of 130,000, while Vienna, the nation’s capital...
Turns out that Vienna is really boring. I realized this as I was lying on my bed, foot elevated, Achilles tendon throbbing for the 17th consecutive day. Boring! Even...
Ah, Österreich! But first, the train from Zagreb. Could have taken a bus, but trains have bathrooms! And bar cars! For about the same price as the bus, you can ride the rails like...
You want history? Read any one of the other blogs about the Balkans. Paleo…Iron…Rome…Ottoman (but just a smidge) …Austro-Hungarian…Yugoslavia…Croatia…War. In the early 1990s, ethnic...