Nov 25th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
An airplane window frames the outside world. There are few images more iconic, more suggestive of modern travel than a photograph of the sky taken from the interior of a plane, framed by an oval airplane window. This image, taken by Flickr user femme_fm, captures the super blue skies above the Austrian province of Styria. I love how the texture of the window itself is visible.
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Photo of the day - Airplane window
Nov 25th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
An airplane window frames the outside world. There are few images more iconic, more suggestive of modern travel than a photograph of the sky taken from the interior of a plane, framed by an oval airplane window. This image, taken by Flickr user femme_fm, captures the super blue skies above the Austrian province of Styria. I love how the texture of the window itself is visible.
Got an iconic ...Austria comes to New York: a look at the Openhouse Gallery's Austrian pop-up shop
Oct 19th, 2011 at 3:30PM: This month, the Openhouse Gallery in New York hosted a free Austrian pop-up shop, which gave visitors a glimpse into what they could experience in terms of art, food, tours, culture, hotels, festivals, museums, and outdoor spaces if they visited Austria.
While the space itself was small, it had a lot to offer. The girls who worked the exhibit were extremely helpful and were happy to walk around ...Exhibit at Austrian Cultural Forum in New York gives a new perspective on beauty
Oct 11th, 2011 at 4:30PM: The Austrian Cultural Forum in New York is currently hosting Beauty Contest, an exhibit featuring 20 international artists focusing their work on their interpretation of beauty. Some of the artists call upon their own experiences being a gay/lesbian, transgendered, or exhibitionist living in eastern Europe, while others comment on beauty's evolution in terms of society. Visitors can expect these ...Austrian pop-up store opens in Nolita, New York, in October
Sep 30th, 2011 at 2:00PM: Austria comes to Nolita, New York, this Fall from October 5-19, 2011, with the Taste of Austria pop-store store. For two weeks, the Openhouse Gallery will be transformed into an authentic Viennese coffeehouse, complete with marble tables, traditional Sacher wallpaper, and Sacher cups, under the name The Sacher Cafe. Along with delicious Austrian food fare, such as the Sacher Torte, a thick, ...Video of the Day - Through the Alps
Sep 13th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
The Alps. Stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and France in the west, it is one of the greatest mountain ranges in Europe and arguably the greatest range to navigate by car (or motorcycle) in the world.
Today's Video of the Day captures one man's motorcycle trip through Austria, Italy, Switzerland, & France along routes ...
Explore secret underground tunnels beneath Germany and Austria
Aug 4th, 2011 at 10:30AM: A vast network of caves, tunnels, and chambers lie beneath the surface in parts of southern Germany and northern Austria, but not even archeologists know why they exist. Called "erdstalls" or, more colorfully, "goblin holes" (Schrazellöcher), these mysterious labyrinths, estimated to be about 1,000 years old, connect churches, castles, cemeteries, and other landmarks of the Central European ...70s Pothead Aesthetics, Meet Austrian Art
Jul 31st, 2011 at 1:00PM:
"I am going to take you to see the ugliest church you have ever seen," said Barbara. We'd been having a long lunch in her garden in the Graz suburb of Hitzendorf. The church was just a few kilometers away in the village of Thal, a place that has the dubious distinction of being Arnold Schwarzenegger's home town. There were four of us, Barbara, her daughter Anna, my husband Julius, and me. We ...Arnold Schwarzenegger museum opens in Austria
Jul 31st, 2011 at 11:00AM: Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood home has opened as a museum in Thal, Austria.
Arnie grew up in modest circumstances--his home didn't have running water or electricity. Despite these limitations, he started pumping up at an early age and his bedroom displays some of his exercise equipment. This dedication eventually led him to becoming Mr. Universe. There are also mementos from his movie ...For sale: Austrian Alps
Jun 11th, 2011 at 11:30AM:
The Austrian firm Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft is causing controversy by trying to sell two summits in the Carnic Alps. Rosskopf and Grosse Kinigat are being sold despite protests from locals. While the company has said that purchasers won't be allowed to fence off the peaks or deny mountaineers from passing by, people are still wondering why they're being sold.
And well they should. Nobody ...Pillow Fight World Cup kicks off in Brooklyn
May 17th, 2011 at 1:30PM: Eurovision chose a winner this weekend and the Olympics aren't for another year, so what sporting event will next unite countries and provide entertainment for the world? Tonight is the first-ever Pillow Fight World Cup and participants from Sweden, Japan, Austria, and, of course, the United States are expected to compete. Did we mention the pillow fight entrants are all female? Rest assured, this ...Five great European thermal baths
May 3rd, 2011 at 3:30PM: Before the spa revolution saw most upscale hotels offering spa services to guests, there was the venerable European spa town tradition, centered on thermal baths built around natural hot springs. The water on offer for bathing at these sites has historically been thought to possess therapeutic qualities. The tradition of taking a "cure" remains an enthusiastic habit across Europe today, in ...Here or there? A a price comparison of the best cities to visit this May
May 3rd, 2011 at 12:00PM: Planning a quick weekend away or a summer vacation? Wouldn't you like to know where you'll get the best value for your dollar? Sure, the exchange rate fluctuates, but we've tracked some of May's best cities via a Universal Currency Converter and a little help from our friends over at Frommers.
According to Frommers, your best bets for May include:
Saint-Pierre, Martinique, where the ...The ten best castles in Europe
Mar 16th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Castles originated in Europe over a thousand years ago. These fortresses were one of the original defense systems, and erecting the structures on hills or just beyond moats was a functional choice. Castles were built to house rulers, impose power, and above all, spurn would be attackers. Conforming to these basic principles of utilitarian design, the strongholds now appear solitary, majestic, ...Schengen and the disappearance of European passport stamps
Mar 1st, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Creative new use for border crossing posts at German/Austrian border.
In the late 1980s, an American spending a summer traveling across Europe with a Eurailpass would see his or her passport stamped possibly dozens of times. With a few exceptions, every time a border was crossed, an immigration agent would pop his or her head into a train compartment, look at everyone's passports, in most ...Gadling's favorite hotels for 2011
Dec 8th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
Where do your loyal well-traveled Gadling contributors especially love to spend the night? We polled Gadling writers on their favorite hotels in 2010. Think of Gadling's favorite hotels for 2011 as our version of a hotel tip sheet.
Laurel Miller. The Kirketon in Sydney for its quirkiness, cool bar, small size, helpful staff and retro-mod style, blissfully free of big-city attitude. Southern ...Q & A with Grantourismo round-the-world slow travel bloggers
Nov 24th, 2010 at 2:00PM:
With all the holiday travel madness just beginning, sometimes it's nice to take a breath and think about taking travel more slowly. I recently had a chance to meet up with blogger Lara Dunston and her photographer-writer husband, Terence Carter, of the round-the-world travel project and blog, Grantourismo while they were traveling through Istanbul. Lara and Terence hosted me at their fabulous ...Top ten cities with best public transit systems
Nov 4th, 2010 at 11:30AM:
These ten public transportation systems, in random rather than top-to-bottom order, are among the world's best. The transit systems profiled here include some of the most impressively massive as well as some of the best-scaled urban transportation systems. Today's focus is on international public transit systems; as such, the better US public transit systems (New York, Chicago, and Portland, ...36 Hours in Paradise: St. Gilgen, Austria
Aug 26th, 2010 at 1:59PM: It doesn't take long to sense the cool, clean air; to see the world stretched like a lawn blanket a thousand meters below; to feel the gust of wind that lifts the spirit and says confidently, "I am alive." Just thirty-six hours is all it takes -- in a paradise-land known for the Sound of Music.
While hoards of visitors to Europe's midsection see the legendary Alps via the predictable tracks of ...Five hot weekend travel media stories
Jul 5th, 2010 at 8:30AM: In today's round-up of the weekend's newspaper media travel stories: delicious pork, among other edibles, in the French Basque Country; American summer road trips; the Italian border city of Ventimiglia; biking along the Danube; and a guide to the world's waterfalls. These five stories inspire fantasies of several types, and hit on less popular spots (like the French Basque Country and ...The Museum of the Funeral Service Institute of Vienna
Mar 23rd, 2010 at 10:30AM:
The Funeral Service Institute of Vienna is responsible for most of the city's undertaking. They will cremate you, find you your ideal coffin or even have you turned into a diamond. Whatever your needs after death may be, they can probably accommodate you.
They also happen to have a museum, which is open to the public but viewable by appointment only. I would highly recommend making an ...
