Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
Two days of detox in the monastery - that's what we wanted to try out during our stay at the Kneipp Kurhaus in Bad Mühllacken. In Bad Mühllacken this is done with the methods of Traditional European Medicine (TEM). Hildegard von Bingen and Pastor Kneipp are just some of the founders of these healing methods.
The monasteries on the Danube in Austria fascinated us in a very special way. Whether it is the gold-decorated altars, the artistic ceiling frescoes or the majestic monastery churches - a monastery on the Danube in Austria is a true masterpiece of human creativity.
Let yourself be kidnapped in three monasteries in Austria. We visit St. Lambrecht Abbey in Styria, the Sisters of Mary of Karmel in Bad Mühllacken and Bad Kreuzen in Upper Austria.
In summer, we find berries fresh from the field in farm shops nearby. In winter they offer jams, spreads or liqueurs and syrups that the farmers make themselves. For connoisseurs like us, this is a real paradise. So what could be more obvious than taking a tour to see farmers on one of our pleasure trips?
In Ebensee am Traunsee in Upper Austria there is a lot going on on January 5th. People are waiting for an event that takes place every year on the last Raunacht, the night before Heilig-Drei-König in Ebensee: the Glöckler run, the Schön Perchten von Ebensee in Upper Austria.
Smart hosts in the Mühlviertel have shown us that these inns in the Mühlviertel are everything but boring. With ideas and imagination, they offer their guests a pub experience that is impressive. It is worth discovering the pub culture in the Mühlviertel.
The St. Martin's goose is a feast in Austria and Bavaria. The feast of St. Martin is celebrated on November 11th. Numerous customs are associated with his memorial day. One of them is eating a St. Martin's goose on the feast day of the saint. By the way, a goose is also a good Christmas dinner.
They have many names: in Bavaria, they are known as undressed or undressed. In Franconia they are called Küchle or Kiachla. In Austria they are called Bauernkrapfen. In the Franconian-Swabian and Tyrolean regions they are also known as Knieküchle or Knieküchle. What is meant is the same. They are lard pastries.
Every year the Schönperchten run takes place in Ebensee during the Raunächte. This is a custom that has been practiced in Upper Austria every year since around 1850 and attracts many visitors every year.
You can admire them until the beginning of February, the landscape cribs in the private houses in Ebensee in the Salzkammergut. Then private individuals open their houses to visitors at the Kripperlroas in Ebensee in Upper Austria.
