Going to Mozart land and not going for an opera would have been sacrilegious, no? Which is why we didn’t commit that crime 🙂 Since we were in Salzburg for 3 nights, we scheduled ourselves for an opera over one evening. We had booked ourselves for the Mozart Dinner Concert […]
Salzburg is a very small town. At just under 70 sq kms, you can pretty much see the whole town on your feet. We had to simply walk down a few meters to reach the right bank of River Salzach. The historical Salzburg beckon at you from the left bank. […]
Durnstein and Krems Town Tour is for those who love to loiter without an itinerary. And that’s partly why we had so wanted the Austrian holiday…..just to loiter in its countrysides. Tour of Durnstein, Austria The first stop of the Danube (Wachau) Valley tour is Durnstein. By the Danube, in […]
As soon as we finished our lunch at the Stiftsrestaurant Melk, the lovely restaurant in Melk Abbey, we rushed down to the Danube river bank for the cruise. It is a short 10-min walk from the Melk Abbey through the town, and part of the Danube (Wachau) Valley Tour (Read […]
By the time we had walked past Melk Abbey’s rooms, verandah, terrace and courtyard (Read – Melk Abbey Tour), we were starving. We had the choice of walking down to the Melk town 2 minutes away for lunch or dine at the Abbey’s restaurant, Stiftsrestaurant Melk. We chose the latter. […]
The Danube, or Wachau, valley tour is a wonderful day trip from Vienna. It starts from Melk, with a tour of the famous Melk Abbey, followed by a ferry ride on the river Danube that take you past lovely countryside, stops by Durnstein, the beautiful town famous for its castle […]
That local food contribute almost 50% to the overall experience in any new country / place is our firm belief. And so, like always, we dug up some of the best restaurants in all the cities we visited on our Austrian holiday. Figlmüeller, in Vienna, was one of them and […]
The tour of the Schonbrunn Palace doesn’t take a day. Half a day is good enough. The tour of the Palace takes about 2-3 hours depending on your level of interest in its history, and the gardens take another 1-2 hours. We went off for the tour immediately after an […]