Etagenbeisl, Linz

Advantages: scenery
Disadvantages: bad weather

...Austria is an attractive country. It is difficult to find unattractive bits but Linz is a rather industrial city on the Danube. If skiing is not your cup of tea the summer is probably the best time to visit the Alpine areas. Cheap acc. is plentiful then. The walking is excellent and the chair lifts are fun and take the toil out of hiking. It can rain a lot in the Tirol in August however. Salzburg is an interesting city with some v. nice beers and bars. It is dimly lit and atmospheric at night. Some good craft products to be bought.... Read review

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Advantages: Scenery, food, people
Disadvantages: Might be a bit quiet for some people

...Passau is an old market town in Bavaria, located at the point where the Inn and Ilz rivers flow into the Danube (or Donau, in the local parlance). It's so close to the Austrian border that if you drop a handful of change in Passau town centre, not all of the coins will land in Germany. Passau is well-connected by road and rail to Munich in Bavaria, and Linz and Salzburg in Austria. This makes it easy for tourists to reach by car from Munich airport, which is the nearest international air terminus. Language is the Bayern (Bavarian) dialect of German, although many people speak English as MTV and Hollywood get everywhere these days. The locals are on the whole polite and cheerful, and patiently listened through my attempts to speak German without laughing too much (except for one waitress who had such a fit of the giggles that she had... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap beer, good food
Disadvantages: not very central

...that you’d get to Linz if you carried on down the Linzerstrasse for long enough!). The story goes that the owner, Johann Medl, won the Austrian Lottery, and set up the place on the profits of his winning “sechser” – matching six numbers. So what have his lucky balls created? Well the brewery brews on site and there are large copper beer stills at one end of the bar, which is a typical rustical and traditional bar, with thick beams around the place and solid furniture. There is also a courtyard which offers seating for 150 people which is open until 10pm or 11:30pm in high summer. The bar itself is open until midnight, which is not very late in Viennese terms, but does have the advantage that you can get back into town by public transport, provided that you are not too befuddled by that stage. As with all Austrian breweries, the Medl Bräu... Read review

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