.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } First Day in Vienna, originally uploaded by scottpartee. Everybody get outside and enjoy this marvelous town. Soon, the perma-gray kicks in and we’ll be pursuing more interior-oriented activities. I love Vienna [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Austria'
First Day in Vienna
September 13th, 2009 · Comments Off
Cordoba!
June 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
Österreich – Deutschland 3:2 in Cordoba 30 years later.
Tags: Austria · Sports · Video
Cool Dude on Graben
December 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Cool Dude on Graben, originally uploaded by scottpartee. I met this cool guy on Graben. I’ve seen him around before, and even have a shot or two of him wearing Lederhosen [...]
Tags: Austria · Photos and Photography · Vienna
Spittelberg Christmas Market
December 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Spittelberg Christmas Market, originally uploaded by scottpartee. I’m converted. I used to think Vienna’s Christmas markets were a bit overrated and charmless. In the early 90s, they were basically flea markets [...]
Arnold Apfel
November 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Arnold Apfel, originally uploaded by scottpartee. Seriously. This is an individually-boxed, €0,99 apple from Styria featuring the “Arnold” brand. It says stuff about being powerful because it comes from the homeland [...]
Tags: Austria · Food and Cooking · Funny! · Vienna
Laternenfest
November 11th, 2007 · Comments Off
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Laternefest, originally uploaded by scottpartee. “Ich gehe mit meine Laterne und meine Laterne mit mir.”—traditional song that is sung on Saint Martin’s Day. —- Saint Martin’s Day celebrations at the Parish [...]
Tags: Austria · Children, The · Photos and Photography · Vienna
Again With The WTF?
January 18th, 2007 · 7 Comments
Hi everybody. Can I get another WTF? Here I am in Vienna, and the weather service is predicting hurricane force winds. So I’m thinking, “whatever”. Then I go to the online news and, sure enough, there’s a freaking hurricane hitting Germany as we speak. So our buddy Kyrill is roaring down to Mitteleuropa. Personally, I’m [...]
Tags: Austria · Euroland · Vienna · WTF
Carlos
January 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I’ve realized that the the only thing I miss about driving a car around is the ability to sing at the top of my lungs while listening to music that I chose. Despite my sweet new iPod nano (courtesy of my sister and brother in law), I don’t think the UBahn riders of Vienna would [...]
Tags: Atlanta · Austria · General · Vienna
Awwww… Poor Vorarlberg.
January 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
I was reading up on the Austrian states, when I noticed this in the Wikipedia entry about Vorarlberg: In a referendum held in Vorarlberg on 11 May 1919 over 80% of those voting supported a proposal that the state should join the Swiss Confederation. However, this was prevented by the opposition of the Austrian Government, [...]
Cold Killers
October 31st, 2006 · Comments Off
I’ve noted before that Viennese bus drivers are a particularly malevolent form of life. Sure, occasionally a nice one slips into their ranks, but overall, I’ve seen the coldest, most viscious and surely most aggressive public transit abuses carried out by bus drivers. I’ve seen them leave women with babies in strollers standing in the [...]
Droppin’ It Like It’s Hot Water
September 29th, 2006 · 6 Comments
I’ve decided to force myself to type some shit with my new work laptop because the keyboard is fucking weird and I can’t get used to it. It’s got keys in weird places, sort of like the face goiters around here. It’s a Siemens. While I appreciate the fact that my work entrusts me to [...]
Tags: Austria · Consumer Fetish · Vienna
Upped
September 23rd, 2006 · 6 Comments
I’m not keeping good on my promise to write a more journal-style site so that the tens of interested people can keep up with what we’re doing and all of that type of thing. I’m not doing a good job of telling you how I work every day from 7:30-17:00 or so and then take [...]
What Happens When You Cross Traditional Austrian Dancing With Eurotrash Techno & Boy Bands?
September 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Find out! (.Mac hosted .mov—worthy click)
Tags: Austria · General · Video · Vienna
Hurra! Der Sturm ist da!
August 24th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Now that’s what I’m talking about. From an email list I subscribe to: You might have seen the signs at several bars and restaurants in Vienna, and the rest of wine producing Austria. In case you are wondering what Sturm actually is, read and learn! We all know that wine is made of grape juice. [...]
Tags: Austria · Booze, Beer and Wine · Vienna
Cafe Engländer
July 21st, 2006 · Comments Off
Cafe Engländer
Style/ethnicity: Wiener Cafe
Location:
Postgasse 2
WienA-1010
Austria
Food rating: out of 5
Decor rating: out of 5
Service rating: out of 5
At first glance, this didn’t appear to be much of a locale. The menu was small and the initial look at the exterior revealed nothing special.
I picked up my menu and noticed a special coffee section that included “Austrian” or “Italian” coffee. That seemed like a good sign, so we went ahead and seated ourselves and awaited our waiter. Turns out the coffee was a false hope, but more on that in a moment.
We delighted in the fact that the cafe serves freshly-made soda zitrone, which is simply fresh lemon juice mixed with soda water but perfect for a very hot day.
We ordered an Italian bread salad with arugula and proscuitto and the “wok” salmon, which was served over a selection of braised julienne vegetables with basmati rice on the side. Both were excellent and especially good when one considers that this is a cafe and our total bill came out ot less than 25 EUR.
We finished with coffees. As usual, ithat’s a pretty big mistake here in Vienna if you care to drink good coffee. I ordered an Italian roast grosser brauner and my wife ordered a cappuccino. The coffee was ashtray nasty but served with flourish and style. It was slightly edible, so we drank it.
The service is friendly and efficient by Vienna standards. Even though our waiter never smiled, he brought Maple a bowl full of straweberries and cream.
Tags: Austria · Food and Cooking · Vienna
