‘What is Riesling wine’, I hear you google… well, as part of our ongoing series of beginner wine guides we’re covering the sometimes misunderstood, yet wonderfully diverse Riesling. Riesling is one of my favourite wines because it is so expressive, it therefore opened up the world of wine to me, enabling me to pick out some of its key...
When choosing a boutique hotel in Vienna to stay in, it is of course sensible to do your research, because precisely what one considers ’boutique’ or ‘cool’ 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 who...
Vienna is relatively 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 city...
Hmmm, a post about renting a car 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 what 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 Vienna - the good, the bad & the ugly Let’s be real here, the food in Vienna isn’t the main reason why people come here, and that’s for good reason. Compared with other national cuisines, Austrian food is really rather boring, and samey, and very meat and potato dominant. Now to some this may sound great, as it did to me when I first arrived...