It’s good to have a plate of warm soup on cold winter days. Did you know that for a long time, soup was a dish for poor people only? The aristocracy was contemptuous of...

Do you love Christmas and are sorry that it is over and you have to wait for the next Christmas one year again? Don’t worry. If you plan to visit Salzburg, you will find...

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Are you planning a New Year‘s Eve party? Forget about the desserts you have prepared for a hundred times already! Try verrines! You may notice that on many social events, small goodies are served...

It is a special song. It has been translated into 300 languages and dialects but always begins with the same words: “Silent Night Holy Night”. Indeed, when people start singing it after the Midnight...

Did you know that roasted almonds belong to the traditional products which can be found at any Christmas market in Vienna? Usually with cinnamon, boiled in sugar water, roasted and caramelized. Also, in my...

Christmas is coming. Everybody in Vienna says “es weihnachtet”. This special verb means that the streets in the city light up with millions of bulbs, Christmas atmosphere blows from shop windows, there are Advent...

Landing at the small airport of Keflavik you immediately realize that this country is quite different than anything else on our continent. Wherever you look in Iceland, there is lava. Sometimes it is gray...

According to Alfred Polgar, a coffee house is a place where people want to go alone, but need company to do so. Of course, the famous Austrian writer was talking about the traditional Viennese...

One day, I heard a story about an English ambassador in the 19th century who let import water from London during his mission in the Austrian monarchy to be able to prepare real English...