The Gailtaler Speckfest, the Gail River Valley Bacon Festival, takes place in Hermagor every year. It is one of the greatest events in the region around Hermagor in Carinthia, Austria. Here, the people still know how to celebrate properly. Please watch the video You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the […]
Kaprun – 3-stage pump storage power plant
Kaprun, a municipality with approx 3.000 inhabitants lies in the Austrian federal state Salzburg. Amongst others, Kaprun became well known because of the construction of the 3-stage pump storage power plant. Please watch the video here You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please […]
Laxenburg and Mayerling
Laxenburg Laxenburg is today one of the many recreation areas in Vienna. Besides a large English style landscape park, the castle Franzensburg is a popular tourist destination. Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth, called Sisi spent many weeks in this idyllic surroundings. Also two of their four children were born here. Please watch the video […]
Piber Federal Stud – Home of the Lipizzan horses
The home of the Lipizzan horses, Piber Federal Stud is located near Koeflach, Styria, Austria. Since 1915, with interruption during the second World War II and in the postwar period, the Lipizzan horses are bred here for the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. In the world-famous Piber Federal Stud the horses spend their teenage years […]
East Berlin 1977
In 1977, East Berlin could be reached from the western part with the underground, stop Friedrichstrasse. Our tour through East Belin started at the Parisian Square with the Brandenburg Gate. It was noticeable that there were only a few cars driving in the city. The boulevard “Unter den Linden” (under the linden trees) looked well-maintained. […]
A stroll in Berlin 1977
Berlin 1977, the capital of the reunited Federal Republic of Germany, was still subdivided into the west and east. At that time, Bonn was the capital of the Federal Republic. The Berlin Tegel Airport was the airport of the western part of Berlin and is still the largest airport in Berlin. Since then, the Kurfürstendamm […]