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
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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
Tags: Family, Information, Planning, toddlers, toddlers in vienna
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.

Tasty Treats: Silberwirt
Tasty treats await you in this fifth district’s favorite restaurant! … Read More
Tags: austrian cuisine, eats, Information, Silberwirt, Tips, vienna
True Tales, kind of: The legend of Augustin, Vienna’s most famous bagpipe player and unofficial patron saint of the plague, aka: the medieval version of corona
How is the bubonic plague connected to the bagpipe? Find out more in our latest post! … Read More
Tags: augustin, corona, Information, plague