Goodbye Sturm season!! Until next year! Yes, technically, you can get Sturm year-round now, but what fun is in that? That stuff is full of chemicals (I don’t know anything about wine production, for all I know it includes enough … Read More
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Tasty Treats: October’s all about the Sturm.
Sturmzeit comes but once a year… what’s Sturm you may be wondering? Well. Sturm is the most dangerous drink in the world because it’s so delicious and you don’t taste the alcohol at all and well… doesn’t that spell trouble? … Read More
Waidmanns whaa? A Guide to Greeting Austrian Hunters Upon Chance Encounters in the Woods
If you find yourself hiking/hunting/biking/lost in the forests of Austria, and you encounter another hunter, hiker, biker, lost-er, how do you greet them?! Do you say, ‘Grüß Gott?’ Guten Tag? Hey there? If they say ‘Waidmanns Heil’ to you what … Read More
Toddler Time: Attack of the Baroque Goats? Head to Schloss Hof!
What do you get when you combine an Oreo, a hungry goat, and a toddler clenching said Oreo in her fist, refusing to let go? … Read More
True Tales: When Wunderkind Mozart met Empress Maria Theresa
When child musical prodigy Mozart travels to Vienna and meets the Empress, hilarity (kind of) ensues… … Read More
True Tales: Vienna in the Time of Corona
This is pretty much how summer in Vienna during COVID has looked like. A tourist from the States asked me last week why there’s a baby elephant plastered everywhere in Vienna. I told him to remind people of social distancing … Read More
Touristy Tips Corona Edition: Vienna’s Museum of Natural History
During corona, a bunch of Viennese museums are lowering their entry fees including this iconic Vienna museum! … Read More
Toddler Time: four penguins, a sketchy fountain, and one unruly toddler = literally 3 hours of peace and quiet for you
Visiting Vienna for a short amount of time and don’t really have the time or patience to schlep yourself and your family to one of the city’s many public pools, but still need something to occupy the toddler in this … Read More
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.