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After yesterday's exciting outing to Graz we were planning an even bigger outing today: an excursion to the so-called "Drei-Länderecke", an area where Austria, Italy and Slovenia come together. So we left early in the morning to drive from my home province of Styria along the A2 Highway to the Austrian province of Carinthia. The drive across the mountains of Western Styria is extremely scenic and the pleasant panoramas continued into the picturesque province of Carinthia ("Kärnten" in German)

Ruster Ausbruch is a specialty sweet dessert wine from Austria. In understanding what Ruster Ausbruch is, it is helpful to first look at the name itself: Ruster is pronounced “rooster”, like the bird, and it simply means that the wine comes from the town of Rust (pronounced roost) in the Burgenland region of Austria. Ausbruch is pronounced ahs-brook, and comes from the German word Ausbrechen, which means to “break out.”

At this moment in time, the increase in cross border human traffic has meant that companies are no longer dealing with a homogenous native community from which they recruit their staff. Companies are now facing cross cultural challenges in how they recruit, manage and develop a multi-cultural staff. One area of note where HR and management are finding difficulties is in the interview room.

The oldest of the world's major auction houses! Founded in 1707, the Dorotheum has its headquarters in Vienna. Close to 300 years after its foundation, the Dorotheum has grown into the largest auction house of German-speaking Europe, and one of the leading institutions of its kind anywhere in the world.

In many cultures, seasonal winds are referred to as ill winds. They have different names around the world and in Austria they are called foehns (pronounced halfway between "phone" and "foon".) The winds may bring a touch of spring, but it can also put people in a foul mood by giving them tension headaches, backaches, hot flashes, nausea and sleepless nights.

"Have we met before?" one expatriate woman asked another, a cocktail glass in her hand. "Only on about seventeen other occasions," answered the second women, trying hard not to throw the contents of her own glass in the woman's face. "Really?" said the first woman, nonplussed. "I can't seem to remember your name."

I love to read and although I have spent lots of money on books here I find the prices sometimes border along "daylight robbery".  However if you are like me and don't need to keep every book you buy and like to read something different then why not go along to your local librabry."

“Hands on, minds on, hearts on!” At ZOOM Children’s Museum, children are welcome to ask questions, to touch and to feel, to examine and to play to their hearts’ desire. At ZOOM, children explore the world with all their senses ? on their own or in small teams.