Archive for Austria

Wiener Schnitzel

The World’s Largest Wiener Schnitzel

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Wandering Earl

If the Wiener Schnitzel that I ate at the Plutzer Brau restaurant in the center of Vienna last week was not the largest Wiener Schnitzel ever created on this grand planet of ours, I shall shave my head and eat … Read more →

Austrian Train

Eurail Adventure: Vienna to Ljubljana

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Wandering Earl

The second leg of my train trip around Europe involved a somewhat shorter, and no less comfortable, international journey than the first leg. Starting off at Vienna’s Meidling station, I found myself on a Maribor-bound train sitting in a near-empty … Read more →

Heuriger Wieninger

Vienna, Austria: What On Earth Is A Heuriger?

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Wandering Earl

One does not need to spend much time in the city of Vienna to understand the reasoning behind it’s constant ranking as one of the world’s most liveable cities. I needed only about four minutes to make this discovery myself … Read more →

Eurail Austria

Eurail Adventure: Lucerne to Vienna

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Wandering Earl

Less than two minutes after walking into the ticket office at the train station I walked back out into the streets of Lucerne holding my freshly printed train ticket to Vienna. Sure, I would have to travel from Lucerne to … Read more →