Lower Austria (Austria)

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What do you get if you mix Mother Shipton’s Cavern with Universal Studios and BAE? See Grotte. Intrigued? Read on. Couldn’t care less? Read it anyway. What am I on about? ********************** I spent Saturday morning at Europe’s largest subterranean Lake, See Grotte. As for the above references, well they have lots of weird bits and bobs strung up all over the place just like at the cavern. Parts of Disney’s „The ...
...of the props on show) and during WW2 they built planes here, just like BAE. Don’t worry, I didn’t mention the war. The guide brought up the topic ;-) Speaking of the guide, he was one of the worst I’ve ever had. He didn’t seem at all interested in what he was saying and rattled on quickly even though it must have been obvious that 90% of the group couldn’t speak good German. Still, if you could keep up he had some useful ... Read review

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...a one day cruise to a two week trip all the way down River Danube to the Black Sea. An alternative would be exploring Lower Austria´s "Waldviertel", a scarcely populated but pretty countryside with huge glacial remnants, pretty little villages and challenging golf courses like Haugschlag, where the Austrian Open has been played a couple of times. To summarize: the option Melk with the Wachau Valley is truly worth the trip and if in a hurry should be considered as a day out in the country when visiting the capital of Austria, Vienna.... Read review

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Advantages: spectacular scenery, history and culture, great people, good food
Disadvantages: crowded in July and August, in winter during X-mas

...it the major source of revenue over here. It is only a 2 hour flight from England, the airports you arrive will probably be Innsbruck, Salzburg or Vienna. BA, Ryan Air, Austrian Airlines and Lauda Air are the main carriers with several other charter companies unloading their skiing clientele every winter. Travelling by train takes quite some time as the fast trains like TGV or ICE cannot run in the mostly mountainous area but you get your share of great views at considerable lower speeds. Arriving by car from Britain takes you via French or Belgian motorways to Germanys "Autobahnen", the only ones where limitless speeding is still tolerated. When entering Austria you are asked to observe the 130 kmh on motorways, 100 kmh on so called federal roads and 50 kmh in towns and villages. As you might not enjoy to drive your own car over... Read review

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Advantages: Diversity
Disadvantages: You might find Austrians a bit stand offish

...-Hinterglemm, not to mention Innsbrück, twice an Olympic Games host. Salzburg is right on the border with Germany and is probably known for two musical reasons, first of all Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and secondly, The Sound of Music. Moving East of Salzburg, the provinces of Lower and Upper Austria, are on the edge of the Magyar Plain, and in the middle of Lower Austria is the city state Vienna. Vienna has a wonderful array of galleries, theatres and a world famous opera house. It also has impressive architecture from the baroque, through Jugendstil, through to the alternative style of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The city is lively, vibrant and safe, and served by an excellent tram system and underground. To the East of Vienna, there is flat land heading towards Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and of course until World War I these countries were... Read review

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