For many reasons, Vienna in December is a place that all Christmas lovers need to experience at least once in their lives. Whether you’re sipping Glühwein at one of its famous Christmas markets, or warming up in a grand Viennese coffeehouse, the city’s culinary scene thrives in the colder months. Picture hearty Austrian cuisine, from roasted pork to steaming...
As part of my ongoing series of wine guides, it’s time to cover the sometimes misunderstood, yet wonderfully diverse Riesling. Riesling is one of my favourite wines because it is so expressive (it has strong flavours and smells), so it opened up the world of wine to me, enabling me to pick out some of its key characteristics pretty early, and so giving me a...
When choosing which of the boutique hotels in Vienna to rest your weary bones in, it is of course sensible to do your research, because precisely what one considers ’boutique’ is a subjective matter. This post is therefore designed to help you to choose accommodation which matches your tastes and expectations. From art nouveau, art deco, to Falco, anybody...
Vienna is blessed when it comes to art museums and galleries to visit, but, if like the Tortoise, you’re a bit of philistine when it comes to art, but you feel compelled to one day plug that gigantic chasm for high culture that exists in your life, then this guide is for you! Nobody here wants to give you ‘museum fatigue’ on your precious city...
Hmmm, a post about car rental in Austria…doesn’t sound much like slow travel to me? But hiring a car gives you absolute freedom to explore any country’s more off-the-beaten-path locations and regions. Despite Austria having a truly world-class public transport system, it is rather mountainous (perhaps you hadn’t heard), so in order to reach...
Having written a couple of posts about Austrian food, we now need something to wash it all down with. So, what better way to start than by introducing Austria’s most important Gruner Veltliner wine. In our sister company, Venture Vienna, we operate wine tours to some of Austria’s key wine producing regions and top wineries, so we’ve accumulated a...
This guide on things to eat in Vienna is definitely for the carnivores out there. As I continue in my vain attempt to lure people away from ubiquitous schnitzels, literally boring the vegetables off restaurant plates across Vienna, I now offer up another alternative: known locally as a ‘Stelze‘, English speakers would call it a Vienna pork knuckle. Yes...
Food in Austria - a guide to avoiding schnitzel The food in Austria isn’t the main reason why people come here. At the risk of being deported, compared with other national cuisines, Austrian food is really rather boring, samey, and extremely meat and potato dominant. Now to some, this may sound great, as it did to me when I first arrived here, but after years...