Vienna, Center - Austria HD Travel Channel
Vienna is the capital and at the same time a state of Austria. Many of the sights are in the 1st district – the old town - and on the Ringstrasse, a broad boulevard that encloses this city district.
Our tour begins at the State Opera. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra are elected from of the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Their famous Vienna New Year's Concert, taking place January 1, is broadcasted worldwide from the house of the Viennese Music Association (Musikvereinshaus). Past the Hotel Sacher and the Albertina -the most renowned art museum of graphic arts - we reach the Heroes Square -Heldenplatz - with the equestrian statues of Prince Eugene and Archduke Charles.
In the inner yard of the Hofburg Palace you will find the statue of Emperor Franz I representing Emperor Augustus. The imperial crown cannot be overlooked.
The Swiss gateway leads into the oldest section of the castle - the Swiss Court. Here you should definitely visit the Treasury. Among other interesting objects, the Imperial Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire and the inalienable heirloom of the House of Habsburg are shown.
Through the Michaelertor – St. Michael`s Gate - we leave the Hofburg Palace and touch the pedestrian precinct crowded by tourists and locals.
Today the Austrian Federal Chancellery is located in the Leopold Wing of the Hofburg Palace at the Ballhausplatz . In the opposite building, where the Congress of Vienna met once, are the offices of the Chancellor.
From the Imperial Court Theatre (Burgtheater), one of the most important German language theaters in the world, one arrives at the folks' park (Volksgarten) built in 1819 with the Theseustemple set up the 1819.
Across the trench (Graben), one of the most exclusive streets of the city, you reach the Stephansplatz. It was formerly the trench in front of the Roman fort, which became the ditch in front of the city wall in the Middle Ages. In one of the side streets you will find the Café Hawelka - Vienna's most famous artists' café.
The St. Stephen's Cathedral is the landmark of Vienna. The glass facade of the house is in a lively architectural contrast to the St. Stephens cathedral.
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Wien ist die Hauptstadt und zugleich ein Bundesland Österreichs. Viele der Sehenswürdigkeiten befinden sich im 1. Bezirk, der Altstadt, und an der Ringstrasse, die diesen Stadtbezirk umschließt.
Unser Rundgang beginnt bei der Staatsoper. Aus dem Staatsopernorchester gehen die Wiener Philharmoniker hervor, deren Neujahrskonzert am 1. Januar aus dem gegenüber liegenden Musikvereinshaus weltweit übertragen wird. Vorbei am Hotel Sacher und der Albertina, das renommierteste Kunstmuseum für graphische Kunst, erreichen wir den Heldenplatz mit den Reiterstandbildern Prinz Eugens und Erzherzogs Karl.
Im inneren Burghof findet man die Statue von Kaiser Franz I. dargestellt als Imperator Augustus. Auch die Kaiserkrone ist nicht zu übersehen.
Durch das Schweizer Tor gelangt man in den ältesten Teil der Burg, den Schweizer Hof. Hier sollte man auf jeden Fall auch die Schatzkammer besuchen, die neben den Reichinsignien des Heiligen Römischen Reichs deutscher Nation auch die unveräußerlichen Erbstücke des Hauses Habsburg zeigt.
Durch das Michaelertor verlassen wir die Hofburg und streifen die von Touristen und Einheimischen stark bevölkerte Fußgängerzone.
Im Leopoldinischen Trakt der Hofburg am Ballhausplatz befinden sind heute die Amtsräume des Bundespräsidenten. Im gegenüber liegenden Gebäude, wo einst der Wiener Kongress tagte, liegen die Amtsräume des Bundeskanzlers.
Vom Burgtheater, einem der renommiertesten Theater der Welt, gelangt man in den Volksgarten mit dem 1819 errichteten Theseustempel.
Über den Graben, eine der exklusivsten Straßen der Stadt, erreicht man den Stephansplatz. Ursprünglich befand sich hier der Graben vor dem römischen Kastell, der im Mittelalter der Graben vor der Stadtmauer wurde. In einer der Seitengassen befindet sich das Café Hawelka, berühmtestes Künstlercafé Wiens.
Der Stephansdom ist das Wahrzeichen von Wien. In lebhaftem architektonischem Kontrast zum Stephansdom steht die Glasfassade des Haashauses.
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Salzburg - Austria HD Travel Channel
The city of Salzburg - flanked by unbuilt mountains - is located on both sides of the Salzach River in Austria.
Today the city enjoys the atmosphere of the Mozart city, its most famous citizen who was born and grew up here.
One has the best panorama over the city of Salzburg and Hohensalzburg Castle from the Moenchsberg. The Getreidegasse - also known as Grain Lane – is the famous shopping street in the historic center. In the Getreidegasse you see a lot of medieval guild signs. The house No 9 was the birthplace of the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
On the day of Saint Rupert you find stalls and fairground rides on all places around the Salzburg Cathedral and the Residence Palace. Only the powerful peal of the cathedral bells is able to drown the hustle and bustle. The Jedermann is performed every year before the facade of the Salzburg Cathedral, where the horse-drawn carriages are waiting for new customers. Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted the 15th century English morality play “Everyman” as “Jedermann” in 1912.
The Residence Palace next to the Salzburg Cathedral was the former Prince-Archbishop's residence and can be visited.
Nestled to the mountain is the St. Peter’s Abbey with the worth seeing cemetery where dignitaries of Salzburg found their final resting place. The Catacombs carved out of the rock presumably date back to the 3rd century.
On the way back we pass the “Felsenreitschule” - Rock Riding School - and the Great Festival Hall of the Salzburg Festival, which used to serve as stables. The display wall of the subsequent horse pond is a creation of Fischer von Erlach, the sculpture with the horse tamer was made Bernhard Michael Mandl and the frescos were created by Franz Anton Ebner.
The Palace of Mirabell on the other side of the Salzach River completes our Salzburg tour.
In 1997 Salzburg became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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Die Mozartstadt Salzburg liegt beiderseits der Salzach, flankiert von unbebauten Bergen.
Heute genießt die Stadt das Flair der Mozartstadt, ihres berühmtesten Bürgers, der hier geboren wurde und einen guten Teil seines Lebens verbracht hat.
Den besten Rundblick über die Stadt Salzburg und Festung Hohensalzburg hat man vom Mönchsberg aus. Berühmt ist die älteste Einkaufstrasse der Stadt, die Getreidegasse. In dieser schon durch die vielen Zunftzeichen mittelalterlich wirkenden Gasse befindet sich Mozarts Geburtshaus.
Am Rupertitag sind alle Plätze rund um den Dom und die Residenz mit Buden und Fahrgeschäften übersät. Nur das mächtige Geläut der Glocken des Doms vermag das Treiben zu übertönen. Vor der Fassade des Doms, wo die Pferdekutschen warten, wird jedes Jahr der „Jedermann“ aufgeführt. Die Residenz neben dem Dom, einstiger Wohnkomplex für die Fürsterzbischöfe, kann besichtigt werden.
Eng an den Berg geschmiegt liegen das Stift St. Peter und sein sehenswerter Friedhof, auf dem viele Honoratioren Salzburgs ihre letzte Ruhe fanden. In den Fels sind Katakomben gehauen, die vermutlich aus dem 3. Jahrhundert stammen.
Auf dem Rückweg passieren wir die Felsenreitschule und die Festspielhäuser, die früher als Ställe dienten. Dazu gehörte auch die Pferdeschwemme. Die Schauwand stammt von Fischer von Erlach, die Skulptur mit dem Pferdebändiger von Bernhard Michael Mandl und die Fresken von Franz Anton Ebner. Den Abschluss des Rundgangs bildet das Schloss Mirabell, auf der anderen Seite der Salzach. Salzburg gehört zum Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.
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Self catering in Austria - St Martin Chalets in Lungau
At St Martin Chalets, we aim to offer the best self-catering in Austria. Unlike the standard 'pick up keys and you're on your own'-style self-catering chalet holiday, we live and work on-site and provide you with support throughout your stay. And while our ten chalets are fully equipped for the most demanding self-catering holidaymakers, we provide many of the things you'd expect from a catered chalet holiday.
We'll stock your cupboards before you arrive, we'll deliver freshly baked bread rolls every morning, we'll arrange your activities on your behalf, most of which are free, we'll lead you on a ski safari or guided hike, we'll loan you equipment and we'll make bookings on your behalf.
As if that weren't enough, we'll also light your fires, arrange your ski school, sort out child care, have your equipment delivered and fitted in your chalet, and even arrange for a hot meal to be prepared for you in your chalet.
We like to think of St Martin Chalets as being the best of both worlds -- the benefits of a catered chalet, with the privacy of self-catering. That means you can dip in and out of our services as much as you like, without ever feeling guilty about missing a meal.
Our chalets sleep between 4 and 14 people and, in all, the resort is almost entirely self-sufficient. Our water comes from a natural spring water and our power comes from our own super-efficient vegetable oil power plant.
As a St Martin Chalets resident, you'll have access to all our facilities, including sauna, gym, recreation/cinema room and relaxation area, all of which you'll find only a few steps away from your chalet. In the summer, there's also a sunbathing area and natural swimming pond, which doubles up as an ice bath during winter!
About 70% of our guests come back year-after-year, and we're easy to reach - only one hour's drive from both Salzburg and Klagenfurt airports.
If you fancy experiencing a truly authentic Austrian way of life, where people wear lederhosen and you can hike to mountain huts where they make their own bread, butter and cheese, come and give St Martin Chalets a try. You'll find things here that you simply experience find anywhere else. That's just one of the reasons why UNESCO designated this area as an official Biosphere Reserve - something the people here are most proud of.
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Vienna, day 1: Rohrau, Austria and Eisenstadt Alina-beth's photos around Eisenstadt, Austria
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Entry Title: Vienna, day 1: Rohrau, Austria and Eisenstadt
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Really quickly I'm going to try and update this. We arrived safely last night in Vienna. We flew, and were the only study tour to do so, so we're kind of lucky. We have 2 classes which travel, and so this is the first of my traveling class tours. The class is called Great Ideas in Western Music. It's a really interesting class. It's nice to stay in a hotel too! Our hotel is really really nice, and we found out this morning that breakfast is wonderful!! They had a huge spread, rivaling Maga's breakfasts :-) Last night we went to a restaurant with the whole group and tried typical Austrian cuisine of potato soup, goulash, apple pastry, and wine. It was yummy, but we had to walk down all these weird ally-ways to get there with dumpsters in the middle and stuff. It was really bizzare. But dinner turned out great. We left for Rohrau (or Rust) this morning, which is closer to the Hungarian border. Here we went to the birth house of Franz Joseph Haydn and his lesser known but also very talented brother Michael Haydn were born. This wasn't that exciting, but it was okay. You can see the picture of the harpsicord that they played on, which is kind of neat. Haydn only lived there until he was 6 however, and the house technically burned partially down, so it's more of a replica house. So, I thought this wasn't that great. After this we went to Rust, which is a tiny village on the marvelous lake of Neusiedlersee. If you look across the lake you can see the Hungarian border, which is kind of cool. We ate at a great little restaurant and had pizza and wine. Yummm. The wine here is cheaper than the water (even tap water costs money in Europe), so we are finding ourselves drinking a lot of wine in Austria. It's good wine though, and I'm certainly not complaining. After this, we went to the Esterhazy Castle in Eisenstadt. This is the place where Hoseph Haydn worked for around 30 years. The castle is in the Baroque style, so it really has more of a palace feel than a castle. We mainly saw the concert hall and the chapel here. It was really neat to be in the concert hall while they played Haydn's music... I could just imagine all the wealthy people in their powdered wigs and busty dresses filling the hall, which this short and extremely ugly man Haydn filled the hall with this music. Incredible. After this, we looked at his grave, which is in the church that you can see pictures of. We then went to a concert in Vienna's Musikverein, which is one of the leading concert halls in the world. I hear it has what is considered to be the best acoustics in the world. We saw Antonin Dvorak's Requiem op. 89. We had standing room seats for the concert, because the normal seats are legitimately starting at 100 Euro a seat. Our standing seats only cost 6 Euro. This was an iiiinteresting experience. We definitely did get to see some of the most famous soloists in the world perform (including a midget with no arms... seriously!) as well as incredible music performed by some of the best musicians in the world. The choir was incredible. I'm glad I got to experience this, especially in such a world famous hall. That being said, this experience was miserable. There is a very reason standing seats are so inexpensive. We stood for a good 3 hours, no intermission or anything, pressed between bodies. It's impolite to move, so we could only move during the 10 second breaks between the music's movements. My feet were KILLING ME, my back/neck was so sore and I couldn't move to loosen up, it was dreadfully hot, the lady in front of me smelled like BO, there was no ventilation, and people were definitely invading my personal space the whole time. All I can say is that you would have to be a really really intense music lover to enjoy it very much. If you were there, you would definitely understand. After this concert, we all went and found dinner. We were all incredibly tired, and I went to ...
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1. In Rust
2. Candid on the street
3. Cute little door in Rust
4. Concert hall Hydan performed in at castle
5. Castle chapel. Hydan debuted much music here
6. Church where Hydan is buried
7. Hydan's harpsichord from his birth home
8. Near the lake
9. Musikverein Concert hall
10. Ceiling inside concert hall
11. The lobby in our hotel!
12. Riding the Vienna Metro
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Changing Plans Harrellrl's photos around Vienna, Austria
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Entry Title: Changing Plans
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One of the advantages of traveling alone is flexibility. If you want or need to change your plans you can do so without worrying about how it will affect others. That's what I've been doing in Vienna. As a result, I have lots of reasons to come back another time. My original plan called for renting a car and visiting some castles in Burgenland on day trips from Vienna. When I communicated with Frau Walkner, she pointed out the difficulty in finding parking in Vienna and suggested that I wait until my arrival to decide about a car. Like Germany, Austria has a pretty extensive and reliable train system, and Vienna has a very well-run and complete public-transportation grid (Strassenbahn, U-Bahn, Autobus, S-Bahn, and even bicycle). In addition, many of the sights are in or on the Ring, and those that are farther away can be reached easily. On the other hand, getting to the castles I wanted to see turned out to be a bit of a problem without a car. Yes, they were reachable by train, but with changes and stops, just getting there and back would take up half the day, and that was only as far as the train station; I would still have had to get up to the castle itself. With the current exchange rate I decided to save some money and fore-go the car. As a result, instead of exploring the countryside I have stayed within Vienna and gotten to know the city. I'll do my excursions on another visit - after all I still want to see those castles! So, on Monday morning I started to experience Vienna. First stop was across the street at Spar, a small supermarket, where I bought groceries. Then I went back to the apartment and fixed breakfast. I saved a lot of money by fixing my own breakfast and dinner most days. Following breakfast, I bought a Wochenkarte at the subway station just outside the apartment. This is the best value on the system if you're staying for a week and starting out on a Monday or Tuesday. The card is valid from Monday through Sunday, costs 14 Euros, and allows unlimited travel on all parts of Vienna's public transportation net. Card in pocket I set off to explore the city. My curriculum for third-year German calls for us to move to Vienna and learn about the city. One of phrases we use is In Wien gibt es mehrere Kirchen. (In Vienna there are a lot of churches.) My goal was to visit several of those mehrere Kirchen. First on the list was, of course, Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Parts of the building date to the Romanesque period, but most of the cathedral is Gothic. There are a lot of fascinating parts to the cathedral. The pulpit, for example, features the Latin Fathers of the Church: Saints Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory and Jerome on the sides of the pulpit. On the base is the Fenstergucker (Man looking out of the window) with a compass in his hand, thought to be a portrait of the sculptor. Along the handrail of the staircase are opposing lizards and toads representing the battle of good (lizards as creatures of light) vs. evil (battle toads). At the very top stands a Domini Canis, hound of God, protecting the preacher from the battle raging below. The supports for the handrail are wheels - three-part wheels (the Trinity) rolling up and four-part wheels (the seasons = earth, mortality) rolling down. After spending time looking through the Stephansdom, I went to the Deutschordenskirche (Church of the Order of Teutonic Knights). It's dedicated to St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and has shields of the Grand Masters of Vienna on the walls, as well as other markings of the order. From there I just wandered a bit soaking in the sights. Kärtnerstrasse is a pedestrian shopping street, but I just window shopped - except for picking up a guide to Vienna. Frau Walkner had recommended I visit the Tourist Information ...
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1. Spar Grocery Store
2. Spar Interior
3. Stephansdom
4. Pulpit
5. Pulpit and Staircase
6. Fenstergucker
7. Domini Canis
8. Lizard and Toad
9. Deutschordenskirche
10. Kaerntnerstrasse
11. Cafe Mozart
12. Strawberries and Ice Cream
13. Against War and Fascism
14. Kapuzinerkirche
15. Kaisergruft
16. Malteserkirche - Knights of Malta
17. Augustinerkirche
18. Hundertwasserhaus 1
19. Hundertwasserhaus 2
20. Karlskirche
21. Fiaker
22. Belvedere
23. Heeresgeschichtliches Museum
24. Franz Ferdinand Car
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Chef Twins in Bangkok - MIDNIGHT CRISPY PORK LEG + German Food at Michelin Star Restaurant Sühring!
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For a while now I had wanted to eat at Restaurant Sühring ( a modern German food restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand. Along with serving world class German food in Thailand, one of the unique aspects of Restaurant Sühring is that the chefs are twins!
Restaurant Sühring is one of the most well known high end dining restaurants in Bangkok, having received a Michelin Star and at the top of the list of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants.
I just want to make this clear - I initially wanted to eat at Sühring and asked permission to film a video. Graciously, they did not allow me to pay, though I had all intention to do so. This video is not sponsored, but I didn’t pay for the food. Thank you to Khun Pup for organizing.
Ok, let’s get into this amazing meal we had, including a surprise German style fried pork leg, which happened to be at midnight (we dined for like 4 hours, and what an incredible meal it was).
Here are all the dishes we ate at Sühring:
Storhappen
Berliner Pfannkuchen
Huehnchen Salat - chicken salad
Lachs & Gurke - cured salmon
Currywurst
Entenleber & Buchteln - foie gras mousse
Frankfurter grüne soße, geräucherter aal - eel
Brotzeit - bread
Leipziger Allerlei - herbs, crayfish
Seabream
Spätzle
Hungarian duck
German pork knuckle
Rote grutze & tonka
Pfirsich & quark - peach dessert
Candy box
Eierlikör – egg liqueur
Tasting menu - 4,400 THB ($135.65)
Wine pairing - 3,600 THB ($110.98)
Again, I was really looking forward to finally having the chance to eat at Restaurant Sühring as a lot of my food friends in Bangkok told me how good it was. Something I really loved is how both the twins are so passionate about cooking and how each dish had a story behind it - many of which had a family story behind it. Both Ying and I really enjoyed out meal.
Huge thank you to the Mathias and Thomas Sühring for the meal and hospitality!
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