"After three days of trawling the net looking for information on Austria I finally found your website by chance. The information in it will certainly make my planning a lot easier, I am going to Soll in the Tirol for a week in early june and trying to work out if its worth hiring a car or stick to the bus and train. Anyway, thanks for putting the site together, it's very good and parts of it (crappiest bit of Austria) have made me laugh. Still a lot to go through. Once again many thanks. XXX, Exeter, Devon."
Freitag, 30. Mai 2008
Letter to the editor...
After three days of trawling the net looking for information on Austria I finally found your website by chance. The information in it will certainly make my planning a lot easier, I am going to Soll in the Tirol for a week in early june and trying to work out if its worth hiring a car or stick to the bus and train. Anyway, thanks for putting the site together, it's very good and parts of it (crappiest bit of Austria) have made me laugh. Still a lot to go through. Once again many thanks. Keith Thomas. Exeter. Devon.
Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008
Re-Launch of Partner Website on Salzburg
As some regular readers (yes, they do exist, as I know from e-mails...) know, TourMyCountry has branched off an older project that dealt with my hometown Salzburg. This website was re-launched recently and is now equipped with a new Salzburg photo gallery. The url is and remains: www.visit-salzburg.net.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008
An error on TourMyCountry.com - spotted by a reader
Hi!
I enjoyed your site on travelling in austria very much. As a native viennese, I must really congratulate to your critical view on Vienna. Although I personally think that Vienna isn't as bad as you described it, I understand that at least for tourists it can be frustrating. Especially if one is a more open-minded traveller who is interested in stuff far beyond Sisi-Kitsch.Although there are many great places to discover, but tourists don't get to see them, as they are not in a guidebook.
But I found a major error on your site about Burgenland. The name "Burgenland" does not derive from the huge amount of fortresses in that area. It was provisionally indeed called "Vier-Burgen-Land" (four caste land), but that derives from the names of the four (later three) administral counties of Hungary, from which the Burgenland was split:Pozsony, Moson, Sopron and Vas counties, or their respective german names: Pressburg, Wieselburg, Ödenburg and Eisenburg. Four -burgs, giving it the name "Burgenland". (Later on during negotiations, nothing from Pressburg (Bratislava) was ceded to Austria.)
Although children even learn in school the fairytale of the beautiful castels in Burgenland, it is simply not true that they gave the name to the province.
Greetings,
XXX
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Thanks to this reader for the correction; if you are interested in the castles of the Burgenland, see the article on the Schlösserstraße or "Road of Castles".
I enjoyed your site on travelling in austria very much. As a native viennese, I must really congratulate to your critical view on Vienna. Although I personally think that Vienna isn't as bad as you described it, I understand that at least for tourists it can be frustrating. Especially if one is a more open-minded traveller who is interested in stuff far beyond Sisi-Kitsch.Although there are many great places to discover, but tourists don't get to see them, as they are not in a guidebook.
But I found a major error on your site about Burgenland. The name "Burgenland" does not derive from the huge amount of fortresses in that area. It was provisionally indeed called "Vier-Burgen-Land" (four caste land), but that derives from the names of the four (later three) administral counties of Hungary, from which the Burgenland was split:Pozsony, Moson, Sopron and Vas counties, or their respective german names: Pressburg, Wieselburg, Ödenburg and Eisenburg. Four -burgs, giving it the name "Burgenland". (Later on during negotiations, nothing from Pressburg (Bratislava) was ceded to Austria.)
Although children even learn in school the fairytale of the beautiful castels in Burgenland, it is simply not true that they gave the name to the province.
Greetings,
XXX
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Thanks to this reader for the correction; if you are interested in the castles of the Burgenland, see the article on the Schlösserstraße or "Road of Castles".
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