Lying in between Vienna and Bratislava the National Park Donau Auen spans over 9,300 hectares area, the park protects the last remaining major wetland environment in Central Europe. For a distance of just over 36 km, the Danube flows freely and is the lifeline of the national park. The dynamic rise and fall of water […]
For many, many years the Donaukanal, a former arm of the Danube, now a regulated water channel going through Vienna, was more or less ignored – a real Viennese “Gstättn“. A Gstättn means a grassy patch of land in the city, mostly ignored by official city planners (until it´s decided to build something on it). In […]
It feels like there are thousands of christmasmarkets, pop up stores, design events and fleamarkets happening at the moment in Vienna – one of them is the HalliGalli right next to Badeschiff in the first district. Open every weekend until Christmas: streetfood, mulled wine, designers and artisans offering their works.