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Best Cheap Ski Shuttle Buses to Salzburg Airport

November 13, 2020December 18, 2012 by Henk Bekker

Private shuttle buses provide easy and cheap transfer services from Salzburg Airport W A Mozart (SZG) to winter sport ski resorts in Salzburger Land, Tirol, and Bavaria. Shuttle buses are generally the cheapest and easiest transportation options from Salzburg Airport (SZG) to winter sport ski resorts in Salzburger Land and other nearby Alpine resorts in … Read more

See Gustav Klimt Paintings and Art in Vienna in Special 2012 Exhibitions

February 9, 2022November 8, 2011 by Henk Bekker

Gustav Klimt Paintings in the Belvedere in Vienna, Austria

Special 150-year memorial exhibitions of paintings, drawings, and other works by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt will entice art lovers to Vienna (Wien), Austria in 2012.

RailJet High-Speed Trains Travel from Zurich to Vienna

February 9, 2022October 27, 2011 by Henk Bekker

Austrian Railways fast and luxurious RailJet trains connect Wien and Zürich a few times per day via Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Linz in around eight hours.

photo credit: Cha già José

High-speed RailJet (RJ) trains run a few times per day between Zürich Hauptbahnhof in Switzerland and Wien Westbahnhof in Austria. En route, the trains stop at amongst others Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Feldkirch, and Sargans. Tickets for RailJet trains cost the same as regular long-distance trains but the wagons are much more luxurious and comfortable. Special offers are often available and may be as cheap as €29 / CHF35 one way. The Euro Night (EN) sleeper train between Zurich and Vienna is an interesting alternative to the daytime high-speed RailJet trains and special deals may make it even cheaper.

Cheap Flights and Tickets to Flughafen Salzburg

February 9, 2022January 16, 2009 by Henk Bekker

Airfare Deals on Low-Cost Airlines Flying to W A Mozart Airport (SZG)

Cheap tickets and low prices are available on low-cost airlines flying to Salzburg Mozart Airport (SZG), Austria. The lowest fares are from London, the UK, and Germany.

photo credit: s_mestdagh

Low fares and cheap tickets are available to travelers flying to Salzburg’s W A Mozart Airport (SZG) from various European destinations. The number of flights and destinations served are particularly big from London, the UK and Germany but many other European and especially Scandinavian airports can also be reached on direct flights.

Salzburg is of course most famous as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart but most passengers flying to Salzburg Airport are primarily en route to nearby ski resorts. The number of flights is thus larger in winter and particularly busy on Saturdays – the best deals are thus available to passengers flying mid week.

Top Cafés for Coffee in Central Vienna, Austria

February 9, 2022October 29, 2008 by Henk Bekker

Enjoy Kaffee & Sachertorte in Hotel Sacher Wien, Café Central, and Demel

Tradition-rich cafés such as Hotel Sacher Wien, Café Central, and Demel are top attractions in Vienna. These coffee shops serve strong, fresh coffee with top Austrian cakes, including the ever popular chocolate Sachertorte.

Vienna is proud of its long coffee house tradition. Enjoying strong coffee in one of Vienna’s elegant cafés is a time-honored tradition. Amongst the best-known Wiener cafés are Café Sacher, Demel, and Café Central, which are top tourist sightseeing destinations in their own right.

No Viennese cake is more famous than Sachertorte – a rich chocolate cake with a divine chocolate coating and a thin apricot jelly strip.

Sachertorte was first baked in 1832 by Hotel Sacher for the Imperial family. However, after a family member sold the original recipe to Sacher’s competitor Demel, Demel has also been using the original recipe to bake Sachertorte. A long court case was settled in Hotel Sacher’s favor allowing only Sacher to add “Das Original” (The Original) to each Sachertorte served. However, unlike Hotel Sacher, Demel correctly keeps the apricot strip at its original position below the chocolate cover and not in the middle of the cake, as is more commonly done nowadays.

Closer inspection of the ingredients labels reveal that Demel uses more eggs than does Sacher to produce Sachertorte.