Slow Travel & Gourmet Tours: Magazine & Experience Guide Worldwide
Two Christmas markets in Bavaria that could hardly be more different. Both are worth seeing. The Altötting Christmas market and the Passau Christmas market are just over an hour away by car. There are worlds between them.
We look at Vienna's insider tips off the beaten track and are amazed at how interesting and worth seeing this unknown Vienna is. We came across all sorts of surprising things on our tour of downtown Vienna.
Dürnstein Abbey in the Wachau looks best from the Danube. You can see the blue tower of the collegiate church below the castle from afar, if you approach the place by ship. The place does not offer many sights, but those that are are worth a visit. They bear witness to the great past of the place.
We are guests of someone who knows about cider production: cider baron Toni Distelberger. He serves us his Baronmost sweet, Amstettner Mostbirnmost, Bacon pear cider and a pear sparkling wine brut.
At the Loisium Wine & Spa Resort in Langenlois in the Kamptal region of the Waldviertel, we had the opportunity to taste the wines: A dinner at the hotel, a wine tasting at the Steininger Wine Experience World, and a picnic in the vineyards above Langenlois provided us with this opportunity.
These three pleasure tips for Linz in Upper Austria make a trip to the city on the Danube a varied experience: a boat trip on the Danube, a stroll through the city center and then a Linzer cake in the K. and K. Hofbäckerei.
The Schick Hotels Vienna stand for tradition and are perfect overnight accommodations for enjoyable travel. There are several of them scattered around the city center. Petar and I are invited to the Hotel Capricorno.
More than 300.000 fruit trees grow in the gentle hilly landscape south of the Danube. These shape the landscape, people's lives and the cuisine.
Which sights does Leopoldstadt offer in Vienna? This neighborhood gives us a glimpse into the city's past. We feel a little bit the Vienna of the imperial era. In his squares, the houses with the wrought iron balconies and bay windows, we feel the history of the Jews.
From the Hotel Pfeffel in Dürnstein Wachau you have a view of the Danube and the hills that rise behind it. In addition to gourmet rooms, the hotel offers a spa with wellness and a pool on the roof with a view of the town and the Danube.
