St. Martin’s Day- Austria’s kind-of-version of Thanksgiving, where, instead of giving thanks due to Native Americans helping Austrian pilgrims navigate through their first harsh year in the New World, we slaughter and eat geese as an act of revenge because … Read More
Author Archives: Lisa
A homage to Austrian foliage
An ode to foliage… and nothing more. Enjoy! … Read More
One more thing about Sturm season I forgot to add!
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
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