Comments on: 14 Things to Know Before You Go to Austria

By: Gary C Small

Gary C Small — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 05:33:23 +0000

I Lived in Germany for two years and visited Austria a couple of times. Your right about the food very much like Germany, but very good.
Thanks
Gary Small I lived in Frankfurt

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:08:07 +0000

Funnily writte.
No smoking rules in every bar, restaurant, night club.. Very nice

By: Joslyn

Joslyn — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:39:48 +0000

My husband and I will be visiting Austria within a few days. I appreciate the info.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:09:14 +0000

Im traveling next year from mexico to attend a metal festival in deutschland. I have studied deutsch around a year but it is still very poor. I hope next year it will be better, because, i think that it is important to speak the native language of a country that you are visiting since people there doesn’t need to speak your language. Anyway, im going to Austria too, i have a friend in Salzburg and, to be honest, im more excited about traveling around Austria than any other country i can go to. I really like literature, that’s the main reason why i started learning Deutsch, Bernhard und Trakl sind meine lieblinschrifteller!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:06:56 +0000

I was in Austria in February this year. I loved it! Salzburg and the Mozart museums were wonderful. I live Salzburg. Great scenery. Vienna was wonderful. So much to see. It’s true that far too many people do smoke over there. In Australia were I live ( and we do have kangaroos here in the countryside and not in the cities) but people don’t smoke here as much. Walking through the malls in Vienna I noticed EVERYONE was smoking. Don’t they know it will kill them?
Otherwise I adore Austria!

By: Gerald

Gerald — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:31:52 +0000

Loved to read this. I am traveling the first time to Austria today and looking forward to it.

By: Loren

Loren — Wed, 29 May 2019 02:44:26 +0000

A fun list to read.

There is one thing that might helpful to append to “2. Austrians Are Not Germans”. If you happen to recall that period of history when the two nations were, figuratively, grown together at-the-hip, it’s best to avoid making casual reference (e.g. comments, jokes, salutes, etc.) to anything that might be perceived as associated with national socialism, i.e. “nazi” ideology. Not merely in extremely bad taste, it’s strictly forbidden by law, and could result in a heap of trouble.

By: Karin

Karin — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:24:00 +0000

As a real Austrian I agree with everything but the jaywalking. I do that on daily basis and the worst thing that happened was a police car honking at me 😊 I live in Vienna

By: Daniel Wallerberger

Daniel Wallerberger — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:37:38 +0000

Funny to read as an Austrian :)
But the thing with the “smoking areas” is now much better, also in Clubs.
Happy Holidays :)

By: Philipp

Philipp — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:23:11 +0000

In reply to Hannah.

Hey Hannah,
By any means, no, no, no, you can’t say Austria and Switzerland are similar. The only common things both countries share is that both are amongst the neatest and tidiest places in the world and both share the Alps. But that is about it. Mentality, humour and “speed” for example differ 100 %.
Cheers Philipp from Vienna