Monday, February 25, 2013

Holidays in Vienna

As well as being the capital of Austria, Vienna is also the largest city and the one with the highest tourist numbers. It has a variety of reasons to travel there and this article sets to point a few of those out.
We will start off with the main annoyance though. The locals do have a reputation for being impolite. In reality it is just that they are to the point and a little stand offish. If you are prepared for it, you will soon get used to the nature of service you receive over there.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

A Night At The Vienna State Opera

If Vienna, Austria, is in your travel bucket list, you are going to stumble across the Vienna State Opera sooner or later in your planning. I am a native Viennese and while my world does not revolve around arias and opera premieres, I have been to the Vienna opera house a couple of times.
While most of my non-Austrian friends don't rank the opera top on their things to do list in Vienna, I usually give them five reasons they should spend a night there :