Keeping up standards
Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna
Tempus fugit, and all that. Suddenly, four years have flown by – where did they go? – since The Budapest Times spent a few days at the Palais Hansen Kempinski[…]
Tagged: Austria
War and peaks
Kempinski Hotel Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
We knew a fellow, an Englishman in fact, who once, standing amidst the magnificent mountain scenery of Bad Hofgastein, Austria, uttered the scornful observation that “once you’ve seen one alp,[…]
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Face to face with Austria’s mighty Grossglockner mountain
May is here, and with it the annual opening after winter of Austria’s Grossglockner High Alpine Road, ranked as among the most beautiful panorama roads in the Alps for 81[…]
Our ##### is better than your fence
One would have thought that after Austria started building a fence at the Slovenian border, criticism toward earlier Hungarian efforts to protect the border of the Schengen zone would slowly[…]
Asylum seekers get a result but it’s not over yet
Motorway march produces bus convoy to take illegal immigrants to Austria
After several hundred migrants set off by foot on Friday afternoon from Budapest’s Keleti station westward with the intention of going to Germany, the Hungarian, Austrian and German governments finally[…]
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
At this point in this European mess about refugees Hungary seems to be the only Schengen country that is trying to stick to the letter of the law, and this[…]
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
Melk to Krems Danube cruise
Choice is freedom, they say, and it’s definitely applicable to holidays – even if freedom is not to be confused with “free”. Today, international travel choices are almost endless and[…]
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