Bleeding is moving on, Tourism - Pt.8: Austria

[shadowman]

Yep, we move on ladies and gentlemen...

"To boldly go where no B4M fan has gone before"

So, our guide about Austria is going to be our beloved Prab, also known as 'the man with the demon eyes'...

So when I think of Austria, I think of :

- Tirol and jodeln (is there an english word for this ?)
- Vienna
- Sachertorte
- Mozart, Strauss
- Herrliche Bergen, sonnige Hôhen (originates from an Austrian song...)
- Salzburg (the rain city)
- Swarowski Chrystal (my wife has collected a small collection of it... if only it wasn't so       damn expensive... )
- Schwarzenegger
- Niki Lauda

That is all that comes to mind right now.
Guess I will add a bit here and there when you guys join in...

[Mas]

Austria i beautiful country as well

Heidi und Peter
Sisi der kleine keizerin (romy schneider)
Wenen the City of Music
Wiener Waltz
Opera's
Ski Fahre

[TexJoachim]

- Mozart

The one and only historic achievement of Austria: "To make Mozart an Austrian and Hitler a German."


SCNR,

Tex

[Prab]

Hey, you guys know quite a bit so far

Okay, Mozart WAS an Austrian, he was born in Salzburg.
Hitler was Austrian too actually, he was born in Braunau, that's in Upper Austria.


The English word for "jodeln" is actually "to yodel".

For those who don't know "Niki Lauda" - he was a famous Austrian Formula 1 race driver.
He was also founder and head of "Lauda Air" which was a popular airline in Austria (it went bankrupt lately).


Keep on telling what you guys know

Greetz
Prab

[Avricha]

Prater comes to my mind as well

[Souleraser]

Time to show a great lack of english expressions...

Salzburger Nockerl'n
Mozartkugeln
"Grossdeutsche Loesung" (with the austrian-hungarian empire) or "kleindeutsche Loesung" after the first german national convent in 1848
Kitzbuehel - where the rich and famous meet

[TexJoachim]

Okay, Mozart WAS an Austrian, he was born in Salzburg.

I read that during the time Mozart was born, Salzburg was German.
Hm, where did I put that bloody essay again?

Greets,

Tex

[TexJoachim]

I read that during the time Mozart was born, Salzburg was German.
Hm, where did I put that bloody essay again?

The Wikipedia writes:

Mozart was born in Salzburg in modern-day Austria, but at the time was the capital of a small independent Archbishopric within the Holy Roman Empire.

Greets,

Tex

[Prab]

Oh, I looked it up now and it says the same indeed.
Around 1756 (Mozarts year of birth) Salzburg was part of the Holy Roman Empire (or Sacrum Romanum Imperium Nationis Germanicae), which means that he was actually German.

Interesting!

Kitzbühel, yeah thats a town in Tyrol, it hostet the winter Olympics in 1976.
It has a lot of nice skiing spots so yeah, a lot of people from abroad come there too

[shadowman]

Shouldn't that be : "a lot of rich people from abroad come there too ?
 8)

[The Metal RN]

I will get to this soon....

[Prab]

@shadowman

yeah, there are rich people too, but I guess most of all are average Joes like us

btw. me personally, I've never been skiing, ever
winter sports are not my domain, definitely not.

[shadowman]

Oh, I was a ski-fan...

I said : I was as long I lived at home and my parents paid for it...

 :(

[Metalmaiden]

I think of people.


Hayden,  Shubert, Mahler
Oskar Kokoschka, Ernst Fuchs
Franz Kafka
Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler,  Wilheim Reich, Viktor Frankl, Karl Popper
Mach, Mende, Meitner, Pauli, Haas, Doppler  
Klammer, Maier, Muster
Stefan Weber
Hedy Lamarr
Marie Antoinette
von Trapp

[grym]

I'm sad to say i didn't know anything posted here so far about Austria...

Yes... I know nothing at all about Austria :oops: